Type Country Usage Chewa, Bemba, Tonga, English, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian Pronounced Pron. /ˈzæm.bi.ə/(English) /ˈzɑm.bi.aː/(Dutch) Meaning & History From the name of the Zambezi River. It was adopted as the name of the African country of Zambia, formerly called Northern Rhodesia, when it became independent of the United Kingdom in 1964.
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