Editing Chingola (section)

{{Short description|City in Copperbelt Province, Zambia}}
{{more citations needed|date = July 2022}}
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| website            = {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20180303095504/http://chingolaward.net/ Chingola Municipal Council]}}
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'''Chingola''' is a town in Zambia's [[Copperbelt Province]], the country's [[copper extraction|copper-mining]] region, with a population of 256,560 (2022 census).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Zambia: Provinces, Major Cities & Urban Centers - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information |url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/zambia/cities/ |access-date=2024-09-11 |website=www.citypopulation.de}}</ref> It is the home of [[Nchanga Mines|Nchanga Copper Mine]], a deep-shaft high-grade content copper mining operation, which subsequently (in the 1960s) led to the development of two [[open cast mine|open pit]] operations, Chingola Open Pit and then Nchanga Open Pit (the latter being the second largest open cast mine in the world).