Malawi
Malawi is a sliver of a country in southeast Africa often called 'The Warm Heart of Africa' for its genuinely welcoming people. It's dominated by Lake Malawi—a vast inland sea with golden beaches, snorkelling, and laid-back lake towns.
Cities & regions
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Blantyre is Malawi's commercial capital and second city, home to over a million people and set at around 1,039 metres in the Shire Highlands, ringed by the p…
Open guideLilongwe is Malawi's capital and largest city, a low-rise, green, unusually spacious place split into two halves that feel like different towns. The Old Town…
Open guideLiwonde is a small trading town in Machinga District, southern Malawi, sitting on the Shire River where the main road and the country's rail line cross the w…
Open guideMangochi is the main town of Malawi's southern lakeshore, sitting on the narrow neck of land between Lake Malawi and Lake Malombe where the Shire River leave…
Open guideMzuzu is the capital of Malawi's Northern Region and the country's third city, with a population of roughly 220,000. It sits at about 1,300 metres on the nor…
Open guideNkhata Bay is a small fishing town of roughly 15,000 people on the north-western shore of Lake Malawi, in Malawi's Northern Region. Built around a deep natur…
Open guideNsanje is the town and district at Malawi's southernmost tip, wrapped by Mozambique on three sides and strung along the Shire River as it drops out of the Lo…
Open guideZomba is a small highland city in southern Malawi, about 70 km from Blantyre's Chileka International Airport and roughly an hour and a half by road from Blan…
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