Chirundu, Zambia is a town in the Southern Province of

Zambia Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa. It is typically referred to being in South-Central Africa or Southern Africa. It is bor ...

at the border with

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. It is the site of two road

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s across the

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river, the

Chirundu Bridge The Chirundu Bridge now consists of two road bridges side by side across the Zambezi, Zambezi River between the small town of Chirundu, Zambia, Chirundu, Zambia and the village of Chirundu, Zimbabwe, Chirundu, Zimbabwe. At this location around 6 ...

s. The Chirundu Petrified Forest is an area of fossil trees 21 km west of Chirundu, lying just south of the road from Chrundu to Kafue near the junction with the road to Siavonga. It is a listed

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of Zambia. It contains fossilised or petrified tree trunks of the Karoo age. On the Zimbabwe side of the Zambezi, the township is also called Chirundu.

References

External links

* https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g676296-Chirundu_Southern_Province-Vacations.html * https://www.lonelyplanet.com/zambia/chirundu * http://www.wildzambezi.com/locations/5/chirundu * https://www.chirunducouncil.gov.zm/ Zambia–Zimbabwe border crossings Zambezi River Populated places in Southern Province, Zambia {{Zambia-geo-stub