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Petauke
Eastern Province, Zambia · Africa
About Petauke
Petauke sits on the route: 55 minutes from Sinda.
Petauke is in Eastern Province, Zambia, with about 58,000 people. The nearest town is Sinda, about 48 km away.
Petauke is a town and seat of Petauke District located in the Eastern Province of Zambia.
Petauke is 400 km east of Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia, just off the Great East Road. The main spoken language of the 14,000 residents is Nsenga.
Most telecommunication is by two local radio stations; Radio PASME, 91.3 andRead more
Radio Explorers, 88.1fm, which cover up to 120 km; mainly used by local businessmen, political leaders and traditional chiefs to disseminate their information.
The town is situated in an agricultural area; farmers produce maize, cotton, sunflower, groundnut, soya beans and many other crops. Industries include two cotton ginneries, one roofing industry, a number of small scale maize millers and cooking-oil refiners, three breweries, and small scale saw-mills. Government is putting up a milling plant for prisons.
The region around Petauke contains copper, amethyst, and gold. However, the minerals in the region are low grade and no serious mining investment has been made in the region. In the early 17th century, gold was mined and that contributed to high rate of slave trade. Mostly, the Swahili speaking peoples invaded the area.
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Petauke is in Eastern Province, Zambia, about 48 km from Sinda.
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- Population
- 58,156
- Continent
- Africa
- Country
- Zambia
- Region
- Eastern Province
- Timezone
- Africa/Lusaka
- Coordinates
- -14.2412, 31.3197
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Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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