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Ndola

Mining centre and capital of Western Province in the copperbelt region of central Zambia; population (2000) 374,800. It lies 275 km/171 mi north of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, and is the commercial centre of the copperbelt, with good communications by rail and air. There is a copper refinery, a cobalt treatment plant, an oil refinery, a sugar refinery, and sawmills.

There is a technical college here which trains people for work in the local industries, which also include paint, adhesives, tyres, clothing, furniture, cement, brewing, and mining equipment. There are ancient copper workings in the area.

United Nations secretary general Dag Hammarskjöld was killed in a plane crash here in 1961.



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