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One of the two pontoon ferries that cross the Zambezi at Kazungula The Kazungula Ferry was a pontoon ferry across the 400-metre-wide (1,300 ft) Zambezi River between Botswana and Zambia . It was one of the largest ferries in south-central Africa, having a capacity of 70 tonnes (69 long tons; 77 short tons). [ 1 ]
Cahora Bassa Dam: road over dam Tete Province: 1974 open Samora Machel Bridge: road bridge Tete–Moatize: 1973 [7]: open Kassuende Bridge: road bridge Benga–Tete 2014 [8]: open
Kazungula border post sign. Kazungula is a small border post settlement in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe close to Botswana, Namibia and Zambia. Just to the west is the Botswana border village of Kazungula, from where there is a bridge for vehicles across the Zambezi River to the town in Zambia also called Kazungula. Kazungula is linked by a ...
Kazungula is a small border town in Zambia, lying on the north bank of the Zambezi River about 70 kilometres (45 mi) west of Livingstone on the M10 Road. At Kazungula, the territories of four countries ( Zambia , Botswana , Zimbabwe , and Namibia ) come close to meeting at a quadripoint .
The road goes for 70 kilometres, though the north-western section of the Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, to the small town of Kazungula, where there is a narrow border with Botswana on the Zambezi River (currently crossed using the Kazungula Bridge; previously by the Kazungula Ferry) (The 3-kilometre stretch of road from the M10 to the Kazungula ...
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 National Park on the Zimbabwean side. [3] ‘Mosi-oa-Tunya’ comes from the Kololo or Lozi language, and the name is now used throughout Zambia and in parts of Zimbabwe. [3]
Kazungula Bridge is a road and rail bridge over the Zambezi River between the countries of Zambia and Botswana at the town of Kazungula.The 923-metre-long (3,028 ft) by 18.5-metre-wide (61 ft) bridge has a longest span of 129 metres (423 ft) and links the town of Kazungula in Zambia with Botswana.
The 2,574 km (1,599 mi) river rises in Zambia and flows through eastern Angola, along the north-eastern border of Namibia and the northern border of Botswana, then along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe to Mozambique, where it crosses the country to empty into the Indian Ocean. [6] [7] The Zambezi's most noted feature is Victoria Falls.