Nsanje
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| Coordinates | 16 ° 55 ′ S , 35 ° 16 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Malawi | ||
| Southern region | |||
| District | Nsanje | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | MW-NS | ||
| surface | - | ||
| Metropolitan area | 1942 km² | ||
| Residents | 26,844 (2018) | ||
| Metropolitan area | 194.924 | ||
| density | - | ||
| Metropolitan area | 100.4 Ew. / km² | ||
Nsanje (former name: Port Herald ) is a town at the northern end of the Ndinde Marsh of the Shire River in Malawi . Nsanje has 26,944 inhabitants (2018 census). It is the capital of the district of the same name, which is 1942 km² and has 194,924 inhabitants. Nsanje is a regional economic center as there is a train station on the Beira - Blantyre railway line . The city has a 1000-meter runway. In October 2010, an inland port was inaugurated on the Shire River, which is connected to the Indian Ocean via the Zambezi . This should reduce the import and export costs of the landlocked country.
Nsanje lies in the marshland of the Shire, but also on the northern edge of a semi-arid zone. Most of the houses in the city are mud houses . The place is located at a narrow point between higher mountains and marshland, whose residents take care of themselves here. Not only gravel roads and railway lines run along here, many valleys also flow into the area around Nsanje. There are no asphalt roads in Nsanje.
The south of Malawi has been neglected for decades. This is not only due to the Zambezi bridge that was blown up during the civil war in Mozambique and thus to the interrupted transport connection to the port city of Beira , but also to the politically difficult border situation. The Malawi kwacha is the general currency as far as the Zambezi in Mozambique . People come to the hospital in Nsanje from a radius of 50 kilometers. Many Mozambicans also use the churches and mosques, the market and the services in Nsanje.
Ceramics of the Longwe culture were found near Nsanje, which are interpreted in the context of the early Munhumutapa Empire, whose heartland is less than 100 kilometers away in the Mazoe Valley, which is easily accessible via the navigable rivers Shire, Zambezi and Mazoe.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Nsanje Port Inaugurated. Nyassa Times