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Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site [2] that is home to one-half of the Mosi-oa-Tunya—"The Smoke that Thunders", known worldwide as Victoria Falls—on the Zambezi River. The river forms the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe , so the falls are shared by the two countries, and the park is twin to the Victoria Falls ...
Victoria Falls (Lozi: Mosi-oa-Tunya, "Thundering Smoke"; Tonga: Shungu Namutitima, "Boiling Water") is a waterfall on the Zambezi River, located on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. [2] It is one of the world's largest waterfalls, with a width of 1,708 m (5,604 ft). The region around it is inhabited by several species of plants and animals.
Name Image Location Criteria Year Description; Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls: Southern Province. Natural (vii) (viii) 1989 These are among the most spectacular waterfalls in the world.
Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park (Victoria Falls National Park) — the small park for Victoria Falls on the edge of the city of Livingstone (where accommodation is available), includes a small 'safari park' Mweru Wantipa National Park — no facilities, neglected, little wildlife but has potential for redevelopment
Old Drift, Livingstone — the first colonial settlement dating from the 1890s, next to a good river crossing point; its cemetery is in the game park section of the Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park. Old Government House, Livingstone — the main government office and governor's residence 1907-1935 when Livingstone was the capital of North-Western ...
The Zambian side of the falls is within Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park; the rest of the falls are part of neighboring Zimbabwe. [148] Livingstone, which lies close to Victoria Falls, has become an important tourist centre. [149] Other popular national parks include North Luangwa, South Luangwa, Kafue, and Liuwa Plain. [150]
Nine countries have only a single site each. Four sites are shared between two countries: Maloti-Drakensberg Park (Lesotho and South Africa), the Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve (Côte d'Ivoire and Guinea), the Stone Circles of Senegambia (the Gambia and Senegal), and Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls (Zambia and Zimbabwe).
Southern Province is one of Zambia's ten provinces.It is home to Zambia's premier tourist attraction, Mosi-oa-Tunya (Victoria Falls), shared with Zimbabwe.The centre of the province, the Southern Plateau, has the largest area of commercial farmland of any Zambian province, and produces most of the maize crop.