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==Location and significance== | ==Location and significance== | ||
[[File:Nakonde border.jpg|150px|thumbnail|right|Trucks at Nakonde border]] | |||
Nakonde is one of Zambia's major border post towns in the [[Northern Province]] with very high business traffic. It lies on the border with Tanzania. It is about 1,000km north of [[Lusaka]], the capital city. | Nakonde is one of Zambia's major border post towns in the [[Northern Province]] with very high business traffic. It lies on the border with Tanzania. It is about 1,000km north of [[Lusaka]], the capital city. | ||
There are about twenty bus coaches that travel from Lusaka and [[Copperbelt]] every day to Nakonde transporting traders who go to buy various items from clothes, building materials or pick up vehicles from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Another available travel option is via rail with [[Tanzania Zambia Railways|TAZARA]] trains from [[Kapiri Mposhi]] in [[Central Province|Central Zambia]], through to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. | There are about twenty bus coaches that travel from Lusaka and [[Copperbelt]] every day to Nakonde transporting traders who go to buy various items from clothes, building materials or pick up vehicles from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Another available travel option is via rail with [[Tanzania Zambia Railways|TAZARA]] trains from [[Kapiri Mposhi]] in [[Central Province|Central Zambia]], through to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. | ||
Nakonde also has tourist attractions with the legendary Ngoni King [[Zwangedaba]] buried 35km away from the town centre. | Nakonde also has tourist attractions with the legendary Ngoni King [[Zwangedaba]] buried 35km away from the town centre. | ||
==Development== | ==Development== | ||
