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Zambia

Zambia's athletes marched into the 1964 Tokyo Olympics as Northern Rhodesia. Independence came on 24 October, the day of the closing ceremony, and they marched out behind a placard reading Zambia.

Five things to know about Zambia

In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the hard countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.

  1. Where it is. It's Zambia, a landlocked country in southern Africa, north of Zimbabwe. See Zambia on a map.
  2. Victoria Falls, 'the smoke that thunders', is on its southern border, beside its town of Livingstone.
  3. Copper is its main export, and it takes its name from the Zambezi River.
  4. Each year a vast colony of fruit bats, thought to be millions strong, crowds into one small forest here.
  5. It entered the 1964 Olympics under one name and left under another: independence came on the closing day.

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