Kalabo District | |
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Nickname: K city | |
![]() District location in Zambia | |
Country | ![]() |
Province | Western Province |
Capital | Kalabo |
Area | |
• Total | 9,066.5 km2 (3,500.6 sq mi) |
Population (2022) | |
• Total | 111,769 |
• Density | 12/km2 (32/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+2 (CAT) |
Kalabo District is a district of Zambia, located in Western Province. The capital lies at Kalabo. As of the 2022 Zambian Census, the district had a population of 111,769 people. [1] The district contains the Liuwa Plain National Park.
It is divided into two constituencies, namely Kalabo Central and Liuwa. [2] [3]
Western Province is one of the 10 provinces in Zambia and encompasses most of the area formerly known as Barotseland. The capital is Mongu, and together with the neighbouring town of Limulunga, Mongu is treated as the capital of Barotseland.
Kalabo is an urban centre and the seat of Kalabo District, in the Western Province of Zambia.
Liuwa Plain National Park is a 3,369-square-kilometre (1,301 sq mi) national park in Zambia's Western Province. "Liuwa" means "plain" in the local Liuwa language, a dialect of Lozi language, and the plains originally served as a hunting ground for Lubosi Lewanika, the Litunga of the Lozi people. The area was designated as a protected area by Lubosi Lewanika in the early 1880s, and as a national park in 1972, when Zambia's government took over management. The nonprofit conservation organization African Parks has managed Liuwa in partnership with the Department of National Parks and Wildlife and the Barotse Royal Establishment since 2003.
The Barotse Floodplain, also known as the Bulozi Plain, Lyondo or the Zambezi Floodplain, is one of Africa's great wetlands, on the Zambezi River in the Western Province of Zambia. It is a designated Ramsar site, regarded as being of high conservation value.
The Lusaka–Mongu Road of Zambia runs 580 km from the capital, Lusaka, to Mongu, capital of the Western Province. It connects that province to the rest of the country, as well as being one of two routes to the south-west extremity of North-Western Province. It also serves as the main highway of the western half of Central Province. The entire route from Lusaka to Mongu is designated as the M9 road.
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Liuwa is a constituency of the National Assembly of Zambia. It covers part of Kalabo District in Western Province.
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