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| 1 | Blantyre ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1053 Lat/Lng : -15.786 / 35.006 | Blantyre is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce, and its second largest city, with an estimated 1,068,681 inhabitants . It is sometimes referred to as the commercial and industrial capital of Malawi as opposed to the political capital, Lilongwe (...) | |
| 2 | Malawi ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1339 Lat/Lng : -13.3575 / 34.0247 | Malawi (or ; or), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west (...) | |
| 3 | Zomba, Malawi ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 890 Lat/Lng : -15.3889 / 35.3333 | Zomba is a city in southern Malawi, in the Shire Highlands. It is the administrative capital of Zomba District. It was the capital of first British Central Africa and then Nyasaland Protectorate before the establishment of Malawi in 1964 (...) | |
| 4 | Motherwell ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 81 Lat/Lng : 55.784 / -3.9852 | Motherwell is a large town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, south east of Glasgow. It has a population of around 32,120. Historically in the parish of Dalziel and part of Lanarkshire, Motherwell is the headquarters for North Lanarkshire Council (...) | |
| 5 | David Livingstone ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 51.4994 / -0.1275 | David Livingstone (; 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era (...) | |
| 6 | South African Airways ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1683 Lat/Lng : -26.1392 / 28.2461 | South African Airways (SAA) is the flag carrier airline of South Africa. Its headquarters are in Airways Park on the grounds of O. R. Tambo International Airport in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni, Gauteng. In partnership with SA Express, SA Airlink and its low-cost carrier, Mango, the airline flies to 56 (...) | |
| 7 | Lilongwe ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1032 Lat/Lng : -13.9833 / 33.7833 | Lilongwe is the capital city of Malawi with an estimated population of 1,583,021 for 2015. The city is located in the central region of Malawi, near the borders with Mozambique and Zambia, and it is an important economic and transportation hub for central Malawi. It is named after the Lilongwe River (...) | |
| 8 | Nkhata Bay ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 547 Lat/Lng : -11.6066 / 34.2907 | Nkhata Bay or just Nkhata is the capital of the Nkhata Bay District in Malawi. It is on the shore of Lake Malawi (formerly Lake Nyasa), east of Mzuzu, and is one of the main ports on Lake Malawi. The population of Nkhata Bay is estimated to be 14,722 as of 2008 (...) | |
| 9 | Ndola ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1306 Lat/Lng : -12.9667 / 28.6333 | Ndola is the third largest city in Zambia, with a population of 475,194 (2010 census provisional). It is the industrial and commercial center of the Copperbelt, Zambia's copper-mining region, and capital of Copperbelt Province. It is also the commercial capital city of Zambia (...) | |
| 10 | British Central Africa Protectorate ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1180 Lat/Lng : -13.5 / 34.0 | The British Central Africa Protectorate (BCA) was a protectorate proclaimed in 1889 and ratified in 1891 that occupied the same area as present-day Malawi: it was renamed Nyasaland in 1907. British interest in the area arose from visits made by David Livingstone from 1858 onward during his (...) | |
| 11 | Nyasaland ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1180 Lat/Lng : -13.5 / 34.0 | Nyasaland was a British Protectorate located in Africa that was established in 1907 when the former British Central Africa Protectorate changed its name. Between 1953 and 1963, Nyasaland was part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (...) | |
| 12 | Mulanje Massif ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 2973 Lat/Lng : -15.9494 / 35.5923 | The Mulanje Massif, also known as Mount Mulanje, is a large monadnock in southern Malawi only 65 km east of Blantyre, rising sharply from the surrounding plains of Phalombe, and the tea-growing Mulanje district (...) | |
| 13 | Erskine ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 55.9005 / -4.4503 | Erskine , is a town in the council area of Renfrewshire, and historic county of the same name, situated in the West Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies on the southern bank of the River Clyde, providing the lowest crossing to the north bank of the river at the Erskine Bridge, connecting the town (...) | |
| 14 | Ntcheu District ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1092 Lat/Lng : -14.75 / 34.75 | Ntcheu is a district in the Central Region of Malawi. It borders with the country of Mozambique. The district headquarters is Ntcheu, known as BOMA in the local language, but is most commonly called Mphate. It is run by Yeneya, the village headman. The district covers an area of 3,424 km (...) | |
| 15 | Mangochi ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 474 Lat/Lng : -14.4667 / 35.2667 | Mangochi is a township in the Southern Region of Malawi. Located near the southern end of Lake Malawi, in colonial times it used to be called Fort Johnston. As of 2008 it has a population of 51,429. (...) | |
| 16 | St Michael and All Angels Church, Blantyre ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1073 Lat/Lng : -15.7841 / 35.0207 | St. Michael and All Angels Church was constructed from 1888 to 1891 of brick at the Blantyre Mission in Blantyre, Malawi. It is located on the original Scottish mission site, off Chileka Rd, and is in the Church of Central Africa, Presbyterian’s Blantyre Synod (...) | |
| 17 | Mwanza, Malawi ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 654 Lat/Lng : -15.6026 / 34.5248 | Mwanza, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is a town in Malawi on the border with Mozambique. It is the administrative headquarters for Mwanza District. It has about 10,000 inhabitants and lies on the important road from Blantyre to Tete in Mozambique (...) | |
| 18 | Mangochi District ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 479 Lat/Lng : -14.5 / 35.25 | Mangochi District is one of twelve districts in the Southern Region of Malawi. The capital is Mangochi. The district covers an area of 6,273 km.² and has a population of 610,239. The Mangochi District is a hub of commerce (...) | |
| 19 | Nkhotakota ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 497 Lat/Lng : -12.9274 / 34.2961 | Nkhotakota (formerly Kota Kota) (name derived from the Chichewa for "Corner Corner") is a town and one of the districts in the Central Region of Malawi. It is on the shore of Lake Malawi (formerly Lake Nyasa) and is one of the main ports on Lake Malawi (...) | |
| 20 | Livingstonia, Malawi ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1350 Lat/Lng : -10.606 / 34.1063 | Livingstonia or Kondowe is a town located in the Northern Region district of Rumphi in Malawi. It is 270 miles north of the capital, Lilongwe. The town of Mzuzu can be reached on tarred road in about 2–3 hours from Chitimba on the shore Lake Malawi. (...) | |
| 21 | Nkhata Bay District ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1193 Lat/Lng : -11.5 / 34.0 | Nkhata Bay is a district in the Northern Region of Malawi. The capital is Nkhata Bay. The district covers an area of 4,071 km.² and has a population of 164,761. Nkhata Bay District houses the charity group in Mwaya and the charity Temwa,http://www.temwa.org in Usisya. (...) | |
| 22 | Chilembwe uprising ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 913 Lat/Lng : -15.739 / 35.192 | The Chilembwe uprising was a rebellion against British colonial rule in Nyasaland (modern-day Malawi) in January 1915, led by John Chilembwe, an American-educated Baptist minister, whose radical evangelical views of racial injustice may also have been influenced by millenarian Christians (...) | |
| 23 | Dona Ana Bridge ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 41 Lat/Lng : -17.4392 / 35.0614 | The Dona Ana Bridge spans the lower Zambezi River between the towns of Vila de Sena and Mutarara in Mozambique, effectively linking the two halves of the country. It was originally constructed as a railway bridge to link Malawi and the Moatize coal fields to the port of Beira. (...) | |
| 24 | Gurúè ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 710 Lat/Lng : -15.467 / 36.983 | Gurúè (also spelt Gurué; known before independence as Vila Junqueiro) is a town located in the northern part of Mozambique, near the center of the province of Zambezia. It serves as the principal town of Gurué District, and is Mozambique's largest tea estate (...) | |
| 25 | January 1915 ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -76.5667 / -31.5 | The following events occurred in January 1915: (...) | |
| 26 | Chinde ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : -18.5833 / 36.4667 | Chinde is a town of Mozambique, and a port for the Zambezi valley. It is located on the Chinde River, and is an important fishing center. It exports copra and sugar, and had a population of 16,500 in 1980. Chinde lies in Chinde District of Zambezia Province. (...) | |
| 27 | Balaka Township, Malawi ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 755 Lat/Lng : -14.9167 / 34.8667 | Balaka is a township in Southern Region, Malawi and headquarters for the Balaka District. The township was formerly a boma of Machinga District, before the Balaka District was created in 1998. A growing commercial centre on the road from Zomba to Lilongwe, as well as on a Blantyre–Salima rail route (...) | |
| 28 | Majete Wildlife Reserve ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 364 Lat/Lng : -15.9288 / 34.6069 | Majete Wildlife Reserve is a nature reserve in southwestern Malawi, established as a protected area in 1955. The reserve's animal populations were decimated during the late 1970s and 1980s due to poaching and other human activities (...) | |
| 29 | Geography of Malawi ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : -17.1333 / 35.2833 | Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa. It is wholly within the tropics; from about 9°30S at its northernmost point to about 17°S at the southernmost tip. The country occupies a thin strip of land between Zambia and Mozambique protruding southwards into Mozambique along the valley of the (...) | |
| 30 | Nguludi ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 952 Lat/Lng : -15.8 / 35.1667 | Nguludi is a village in southeastern Malawi, several kilometres east of Limbe and Blantyre. During the colonial era it was renowned for its plantations. It is surrounded by Ntonya hills and village in the east; Nguludi(sic) hills in the West whose very bottom is anchored by Mwenye village 2; (...) | |
| 31 | Ulva in literature and the arts ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 120 Lat/Lng : 56.475 / -6.2 | Ulva in literature and the arts refers to the literary and artistic connections to the island of Ulva in the Hebrides of Scotland. During the 18th and 19th centuries in particular many famous literary figures visited the island including Dr Johnson, Walter Scott and James Hogg and there are numerous (...) | |
| 32 | Mulanje Mountain Forest Reserve ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1588 Lat/Lng : -15.9167 / 35.5694 | Mulanje Mountain Forest Reserve is a nature reserve founded in 1927 in Malawi. It is operated by the Mulanje Mountain Conservation Trust. (...) | |