Chinsali District with headquarters at
Chinsali is located in
Muchinga Province
Muchinga Province is one of the ten provinces of Zambia. It is located in the northeast of the country and borders with Tanzania in the north, Malawi in the east, Eastern Province in the south, Central Province in the southwest, Luapula Province ...
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Zambia
Zambia (), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa, although it is typically referred to as being in Southern Africa at its most central point. Its neighbours are t ...
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It lies on the watershed between the
Chambeshi River in the
Congo Basin and the
Luangwa River in the
Zambezi basin. The north-eastern half of the district is relatively flat plateau, especially along the Chambeshi, of 1200–1300 m elevation but the south-western half has an attractive landscape of granite hills with an elevation of 1500–1600 m, where the country estate of
Shiwa Ngandu is located.
Despite running along the edge of the upper
Luangwa Valley, there is no road (Matumbo/Chama Road) access from the district to that valley and its national parks except with specially-licensed off-road tour companies.
As of the 2000 Zambian Census, the district had a population of 128,646 people.
References
Districts of Muchinga Province
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