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Chingola is a city of 157,000 in Zambia. It lies in the Copperbelt region, the country's main copper mining area, and its economy rely heavily on mining activities. In fact, the town was established in 1943, when the large copper mines of nearby Nchanga were opened.
Chingola is a city in Zambia's Copperbelt Province, the country's copper-mining region, with a population of 216,626 (2010 census). It is the home of Nchanga Copper Mine, a deep-shaft high-grade content copper mining operation, which subsequently (in the 1960s) led to the development of two open pit operations, Chingola Open Pit and then Nchanga Open Pit (the latter being the second largest open cast mine in the world).