page_title: Ndola
section_title: Transport
hierarchical_section_title: Ndola / Transport
caption_attribution_description: &#160;Zambia, spotting at Ndola International Airport
context_page_description: Ndola is the second largest city in Zambia in terms of infrastructural development and third in terms of size and population, with a population of 475,194, after the capital, Lusaka, and Kitwe. It is the industrial and commercial center of the Copperbelt, Zambia's copper-mining region, and capital of Copperbelt Province. It lies just 10 kilometres from the border with DR Congo. It is also home to Zambia's first modern stadium, the Levy Mwanawasa Stadium.
context_section_description: Ndola is on the Zambia Railways line with passenger and freight services running between Kitwe and Livingstone via Kabwe and Lusaka. Freight branch lines run to other Copperbelt towns and from Ndola to Lubumbashi in DR Congo via Sakania.
  A dual carriageway links Ndola to Kitwe, the Copperbelt's second city, and other tarred highways link to Mufulira and Lusaka.
  Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport has scheduled domestic services to Lusaka and international service to Addis Ababa, Johannesburg and Nairobi. It is one of the country's four international airports, others being Livingstone and Lusaka and Mfuwe. Although, Zambia has plans to make the Copperbelt International Airport (right next to the Dag Hammarskjöld Crash Site Memorial) the main airport in the district in 2020.
  The oil pipeline from Dar es Salaam (Tazama Pipeline) terminates at the Indeni Oil Refinery in the town.
  These factors make Ndola the distribution centre of the Copperbelt and northern Zambia.
caption: Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport
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