Masaiti District is a

district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

Zambia Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa. It is typically referred to being in South-Central Africa or Southern Africa. It is bor ...

, located in

Copperbelt Province Copperbelt Province is a province in Zambia which covers the mineral-rich Copperbelt, and farming and bush areas to the south. It was the backbone of the Northern Rhodesian economy during British colonial rule and fuelled the hopes of the imme ...

. The capital lies at Masaiti. As of the 2000 Zambian Census, the district had a population of 177,829 people.2022 Census of Population and Housing - Preliminary Report
(PDF) It is divided into two

constituencies An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provi ...

, namely Masaiti constituency and Kafulafuta constituency. It neighbours

Lufwanyama District Lufwanyama District with headquarters at Lufwanyama is a large rural undeveloped district in the west of Copperbelt Province. It neighbours Mpongwe District and Masaiti District. At one time these three districts were known as 'Ndola Ndola is t ...

and

Mpongwe District Mpongwe District is a district of Zambia, located in Copperbelt Province. The capital lies at Mpongwe. As of the 2022 Zambian Census, the district had a population of 135,486 people.

. At one time, before 1997, these three districts were known as '

Ndola Ndola is the third largest city in Zambia in terms of size and population, with a population of 627,503 (''2022 census''), after the capital, Lusaka, and Kitwe, and the second largest in terms of infrastructure development after Lusaka. It is the I ...

Rural'.

References

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