Chililabombwe

Chililabombwe, formerly named Bancroft, is a small town in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia, close to the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its name means place of the croaking frog in the Lamba language, and the earlier name honoured the Canadian geologist Joseph Austen Bancroft, who lived from 1882 to 1957. The article gives its population as 87,000 from the 2010 census, which makes it one of the largest Copperbelt towns. It lies on the T3 road 20 km north of Chingola and about 17 km south of the large border market of Kasumbalesa. Copper mining is its main economic activity, with sixteen mines led by Konkola Copper Mines, one of Africa's largest copper producers, and the Konkola Blades football club plays at the 25,000-seat Konkola Stadium.