Lying in the heart of Zambia, the province has a total land mass of 94,394 square kilometres, sharing borders with Lusaka Province in the South, Southern and Western Provinces in the West, Eastern Province in the East, Copperbelt in the North and Northern and Luapula Provinces in the East. This makes the province the only one sharing borders will other other provinces.

It also shares an international border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Central province has the potential for various developmental activities, calling for the involvement of both local and foreign investors. It has vast deposits of various minerals such as lead and zinc, copper and even gold deposits for small scale mining. Iron ore deposits are also found between Lusaka and Mumbwa and tin in Serenje and Mumbwa.

Agriculturally, the Province is the most important province of nearly all edible crops marketed in the country, the major one being maize. Others are sunflower, cotton, soyabeans, wheat, tobacco, groundnuts and kenaf.

Interested investors have at their disposal, large, untapped but exploitable resources in the form of virgin agricultual land, rain and road infrastructure, large surface and underground water sources and a fair amount of unexploited mineral wealth.