Northern Rhodesia
Northern Rhodesia in southern Africa was a territory initially administered under charter by the British South Africa Company and formed by it in 1911 by amalgamating North-Western Rhodesia and North-Eastern Rhodesia. Although it had features of a charter colony the territory's treaties and charter gave it Protectorate status and from 1924 it was administered by the United Kingdom government as an official British Protectorate.
Northern Rhodesia was granted independence in 1964 and was renamed Zambia.
The geographical, as opposed to political, term "Rhodesia" refers to a region generally comprising the areas that are today Zambia and Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia).[1]
The famous railway from the port of Benguela in Portuguese Angola entered Northern Rhodesia via Tenke in the Belgian Congo.
