- Southern Province, Zambia
Southern Province is one of
Zambia 's nine provinces, and home to Zambia's premier tourist attraction,Mosi-oa-Tunya (Victoria Falls), shared withZimbabwe . The centre of the province, the Southern Plateau, has the largest area of commercial farmland of any Zambian province, and produces most of the maize crop.The
Zambezi River is the province's southern border, andLake Kariba , formed by theKariba Dam , lies along the province's south-eastern edge. The eastern border is theKariba Gorge and Zambezi, and the north-east border is theKafue River and its gorge, dividing it fromLusaka Province . TheKafue Flats lie mostly within the province's northern border with Central Province. In the north west lies part of the famousKafue National Park , the largest in Zambia, and the lake formed by the Itezhi-Tezhi Dam. The south-western border with Western Province runs through the teak forests aroundMulobezi which once supported a commercial timber industry and for which theMulobezi Railway was built.The provincial capital is Livingstone. The Batonga are the largest ethnic group in the Province. A rail line and the
Lusaka-Livingstone road forms the principal transport axis of the province, running through its centre and its farming towns:Kalomo ,Choma , Pemba,Monze , andMazabuka . In addition to maize, other commercially important activities includesugar cane plantations at the edge of the Kafue Flats, and cattle ranching.Southern Province has the only large source of fossil fuel in Zambia, the Maamba
coal mine in the Zambezi valley, served by a branch line of the railway.National Parks and wildlife areas
:"For more detail see Southern Province in the Wildlife of Zambia"
*Southern half ofKafue National Park
*Lochinvar National Park and theKafue Flats in the north
*Victoria Falls National Park , the Zambezi and Batoka Gorges in the south
*Lake Kariba in the south-east.Districts
Southern Province is divided into 11
district s:
*Choma
*Gwembe
*Itezhi-Tezhi
*Kalomo
*Kazungula
*Livingstone
*Mazabuka
*Monze
*Namwala
*Siavonga
*Sinazongwe Ministers for Southern Province
*
Alice Simango
*Joseph Mulyata
*Chilufya Kazenene
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