Northern Province, Zambia

Northern Province is one of the ten provinces of Zambia, and its provincial capital is Kasama. It is made up of twelve districts, among them Kasama, Mbala, Mpulungu, Chilubi, Kaputa and Luwingu. The province includes the Bangweulu Wetlands and Isangano National Park. Its most prominent traditional leader is Chitimukulu, the Paramount Chief of the Bemba. At the 2010 census Northern Province had 1,105,824 people, about 8.5 percent of the national population, on 77,650 square kilometres, a population density of 14.2 per square kilometre. Part of its former territory now belongs to Muchinga Province, which was created in 2011.