Mchinji
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| Coordinates | 13 ° 49 ′ S , 32 ° 54 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Malawi | ||
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| District | Mchinji | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | MW-MC | ||
| height | 1754 m | ||
| surface | - | ||
| Metropolitan area | 3356 km² | ||
| Residents | 28,011 (2018) | ||
| Metropolitan area | 324,941 (2003) | ||
| density | - | ||
| Metropolitan area | 96.8 Ew. / km² | ||
Mchinji is a town at an altitude of 1,360 meters in the central region of Malawi with 28,011 inhabitants (2018 census) on the border with Zambia . It is 110 kilometers west of the capital Lilongwe and is the capital of the district of the same name , which has an area of 3356 km² and 324,941 inhabitants. Mchinji is the starting point of the railway line towards Lilongwe and on to Mozambique and is located on the paved road from Chipata (in Zambia T4) to Lilongwe (in Malawi M12), has a 1000 meter long airfield and is connected to the national power grid.
economy
To the north of the city lies the 1754 meter high ridge of the Mchinji Hills. It is being reforested to stabilize the area in terms of water management. There are problems with illegal logging and grazing, which is polluting the water for the 72 lower-lying villages. A system of retention basins and water pipes is being expanded in a United Nations project. Mchinji, like neighboring Chipata in Zambia, is inhabited by Ngoni . It is one of the most distant and therefore poorest and least developed districts of Malawi.
Facilities
Another elementary school was built in Mchinji in 2006. Illiteracy is common in this region. There is a secondary school and a "medical center".
The suburb of Kachebere, 6 km northeast of the M12, is known nationwide for a mission station built in 1903 by the White Fathers , from which a Roman Catholic seminary (Kachebere Major Seminary) emerged. This educational institution came from important Catholic clergy from Zambia and Malawi, such as the first black Archbishop Chiona , Bishop Kalilombe , who was temporarily placed under house arrest by the political rulers, or the first Malawian Bishop Joseph Mukasa Zuza .
Individual evidence
- ^ Owen JM Kalinga: Historical Dictionary of Malawi. Scarecrow Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-8108-5961-6 .