| Embassy of Zambia, Washington, D.C. | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Coordinates | 38°54′52″N77°3′12″W / 38.91444°N 77.05333°W Coordinates: 38°54′52″N77°3′12″W / 38.91444°N 77.05333°W |
| Location | Washington, D.C. |
| Address | 2419 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. |
| Ambassador | Sheila Siwela |
The Embassy of Zambia in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of the Zambia to the United States. It is located at 2419 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Embassy Row neighborhood. [1]
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States. Founded after the American Revolution as the seat of government of the newly independent country, Washington was named after George Washington, first President of the United States and Founding Father. As the seat of the United States federal government and several international organizations, Washington is an important world political capital. The city is also one of the most visited cities in the world, with more than 20 million tourists annually.
A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from one state or an organisation present in another state to represent the sending state/organisation officially in the receiving state. In practice, a diplomatic mission usually denotes the resident mission, namely the embassy, which is the main office of a country's diplomatic representatives to another country, usually but not necessarily the receiving state's capital city. Consulates, on the other hand, are smaller diplomatic missions which are normally located outside the capital of the receiving state. As well as being a diplomatic mission to the country in which it is situated, it may also be a non-resident permanent mission to one or more other countries. There are thus resident and non-resident embassies.
Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in south-central Africa. It neighbours the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique to the southeast, Zimbabwe and Botswana to the south, Namibia to the southwest, and Angola to the west. The capital city is Lusaka, located in the south-central part of Zambia. The population is concentrated mainly around Lusaka in the south and the Copperbelt Province to the northwest, the core economic hubs of the country.
The Ambassador is Sheila Siwela. [2]
