Mporokoso (also spelled and pronounced 'Mpolokoso' and 'Mumpolokoso') is a town in the Northern Province of

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, lying at an elevation of nearly 1500 m on the flat plateau about 75 km south east of

Lake Mweru Wantipa Lake Mweru Wantipa or Mweru-wa-Ntipa meaning "muddy lake" (also called 'Mweru Marsh') is a lake and Zambezian flooded grasslands, swamp system in the Northern Province, Zambia, Northern Province of Zambia. It has been regarded in the past as somet ...

and 100 km south-west of

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. It is named for

Chief Mporokoso Chief Mporokoso (also spelled 'Mpolokoso' and 'Mumpolokoso') is a senior chieftainship of the Bemba people of Zambia, and a subordinate chief of Paramount Chief Chitimukulu. The chief's palace is located in the Northern Province town of Mporokoso ...

(also spelled 'Mumpolokoso') a senior chief of the

Bemba people Bemba may refer to: * Bemba language (Chibemba), a Bantu language spoken in Zambia * Bemba people (AbaBemba), an ethnic group of central Africa * Jean-Pierre Bemba, the former vice-President of the Democratic Republic of Congo * A Caribbean drum, ...

whose palace is located at Chishamwamba close to the town.''Times of Zambia''
{{webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927224205/http://www.times.co.zm/news/viewnews.cgi?category=4&id=1056658325 , date=2007-09-27 accessed 4 February 2007 Mporokoso District is also one of the 12

administrative districts Administrative division, administrative unit,Article 3(1). country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, constituent state, as well as many similar terms, are generic names for geographical areas into which a particular, ind ...

of the Northern Province. A large population of

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s from the

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living at the

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-administered refugee camp at Mwange, 32 km west of the town, are being repatriated after the end of that war. A number of

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s lie within 50 km of the town. The closest is the Kapumo Falls, 7km south-west of the town centre.

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and Mumbuluma Falls III are on the Luangwa River (not to be confused with the river of that name in eastern Zambia) which flows to the south of the town. Lupupa Falls are on the nearby Mukubwe River.

References

Populated places in Northern Province, Zambia