With a population of 517,543 (2010 census provisional) Kitwe is one of the most developed commercial and industrial areas in the nation, alongside Ndola and Lusaka.

[2] Kitwe is located in the Copperbelt Province and is made up of townships and suburban areas including Parklands, Riverside, Buchi, Chimwemwe, Kwacha, Nkana East, Nkana West, Garneton, Ndeke, Miseshi, Wusakile, Mindolo, Chachacha and Race Course, to mention a few.

The line was extended into DR Congo, and from there eventually linked to the Benguela Railway to the Atlantic port of Lobito in Angola, which used to take some of Zambia's copper exports.

The good central position of the city in the Copperbelt area made it the most popular choice for industrial developers even today in the 2020s.

The following is a list of Mining Companies in Kitwe (as of 2019), Kitwe lies at the end of Zambia Railways passenger services from Livingstone, Lusaka and Ndola,[5] but freight lines continue to the mining towns to the north-west (Chingola and Chililabombwe) and north (Mufulira).

[7] Ndola Airport is 50 km to the south-east and services regular commercial flights from Lusaka, Solwezi, Addis Ababa, Nairobi, and Johannesburg.

This started a series of partnerships between Zambian schools such as Chamboli, Mukuba, Ndeke Secondary, Wusakile Secondary, Ndeke Basic, Kitwe Boys, Kitwe Basic, Wesely Nyerenda, Fatima, Nkana High, etc.

An international school, it provides pre-school, primary, secondary, and advanced level teaching following a Cambridge curriculum.

[citation needed] The school is known for having a good disciplinary policy and a number of extracurricular activities like chess, table tennis, volleyball, basketball, tennis, squash, rugby, hockey, football, cricket, athletics, swimming, softball, netball, handball, baseball, rounders, a Duke of Edinburgh program, and martial arts.

Being one of the top 10 best schools in Zambia, Mpelembe has a highly selective admissions at both eighth and tenth grade entry levels.

[citation needed] Students who meet the grades go on to study at universities in the UK, US, Canada, South Africa and other developed countries.

Ex-Mpelembe students are scattered all over the world working for various organisations ranging from Government departments to Google.

[citation needed] The construction work has been funded largely by the money raised in a Sponsored Walk held during the Summer of 2010 and marks the start of a long-term relationship between Cranleigh and Kawama School over the coming years.

In a region where the HIV/AIDS rate is very high, and many children are on ARV's (antiretroviral drugs), being adequately nourished is essential for this medication to work effectively.

This is being achieved through direct appeals to parents, and through campaigns in each boarding house, who are using ingenious ways to raise the necessary funds.

Mukuba University formerly known as Copperbelt Secondary Teachers' College (cosetco), has had the important specialized function of training teachers of Science, Mathematics and Home Economics for the nation's secondary schools, a task it has performed since it was first opened by the Ministry of Education in 1974.

A nine-month Peace Certificate in conflict resolution, peace-building, computer training and democracy is also offered.

[citation needed] The majority of the population of Kitwe, about 98.5%, are Christians but there are some minority groups such as Muslims and Hindus.

Mukuba Mall was opened in April 2015 by President Edgar Chagwa Lungu and cost $50 million to construct.

In May 2016, work resumed[13] and in December 2018, the mall was officially opened and was renamed as ECL Business Park (named after President Edgar Chagwa Lungu).