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- Instance of
- district of Malawi
- Country
- Malawi
- Located in
- Central Region
- Capital
- Salima
- Area
- 2196
- Shares border with
- Nkhotakota District
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- Salima District
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Encyclopedic overview
Location of Salima District in Malawi Salima is a district in the Central Region of Malawi. The city of Salima is the district's capital. The district covers an area of 2,196 km.² and has a population of 478,346. The beach at Senga Bay is the weekend retreat of many from the capital, Lilongwe, and has hosted the annual Lake of Stars festival since 2008, when it was moved from Chintheche in order to be less remote. There is a range of accommodation options in the area, though most are a few kilometers off the main road.
Demographics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Salima District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.