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The Zambezi (also spelled Zambeze and Zambesi) is the fourth-longest river in Africa, the longest east-flowing river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. Its drainage basin covers 1,390,000 km 2 (540,000 sq mi), [ 1 ][ 2 ] slightly less than half of the Nile 's.
The large rift lakes of Africa are the ancient home of great biodiversity, and 10% of the world's fish species live in this region. Countries in the area which are bounded by the lakes of the Great Lakes region include Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Zambia, Tanzania, and Uganda. [2]
With a surface area of approximately 59,947 km 2 (23,146 sq mi), [ 6 ][ 7 ] Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, the world's largest tropical lake, [ 8 ] and the world's second-largest fresh water lake by surface area after Lake Superior in North America. [ 9 ] In terms of volume, Lake Victoria is the world's ninth-largest ...
2 Other towns, villages and missions. ... Map of Zambia. This is a list of cities, ... Provinces of Zambia; List of cities by country;
531 [1] Lake Bangweulu (red) and the Congo River system. Bangweulu — 'where the water sky meets the sky' — is one of the world's great wetland systems, comprising Lake Bangweulu, the Bangweulu Swamps and the Bangweulu Flats or floodplain. [2] Situated in the upper Congo River basin in Zambia, the Bangweulu system covers an almost completely ...
Website. www.sou.gov.zm. 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.
The terrain of Zambia is mostly high plateau, with some hills and mountains. The lowest point is the Zambezi river, at 329 m (1,079 ft) above sea level, with the highest being Mafinga Central in the Mafinga Hills, at 2,339 m (7,674 ft) above sea level. Zambia is a landlocked country bordered along Zimbabwe in the south divided by Victoria Falls ...
Zambia map of Köppen climate classification. Zambia is a landlocked country in southern Africa, with a tropical climate, and consists mostly of high plateaus with some hills and mountains, dissected by river valleys. At 752,614 km 2 (290,586 sq mi) it is the 39th-largest country in the world, slightly smaller than Chile. The country lies ...