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Tanzania–Zambia Railway

1970–1975 · 20th century · Also known as TAZARA, TAZARA Railway, Uhuru Railway

The Tanzania–Zambia Railway is a railway of about 1,860 kilometres from Dar es Salaam to Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia, built between 1970 and 1975 with an interest-free loan, engineers and workers from China. It gave landlocked Zambia an outlet to the sea that avoided white-ruled Rhodesia and South Africa, and was then the largest Chinese aid project abroad.

Tanzania–Zambia Railway
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Tanzania–Zambia Railway. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/tanzania-zambia-railway
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