Kazungula, Zambia
Kazungula is a small border town in the Southern Province of Zambia, lying on the north bank of the Zambezi River about 70 km west of Livingstone, at an almost quadripoint where four countries nearly meet. It is home to the Kazungula Ferry across the 400 m wide river to Kazungula in Botswana, 8 km east of the town of Kasane, one of the largest ferries in the region with a capacity of 70 tonnes. A bridge is planned to replace it.
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Kazungula lies just 2 km from the Livingstone-Sesheke road which connects to the Katima Mulilo Bridge linking Zambia and Namibia. Kazungula is also headquarters of a district of the same name.
Botswana has only 1.6 km of river frontage on the Zambezi, being sandwiched on the south bank between the extreme tip of Namibia's Caprivi Strip and Zimbabwe, hence the meeting point of four countries. The Chobe River, which divides Namibia and Botswana, enters the Zambezi at Kazungula.
The border post between Zimbabwe and Botswana, 4.5 km (by road) south-east of the Kazungula Ferry, is also called Kazungula.
[edit] References
- Google Earth accessed 1 March 2007.
- Camerapix: Spectrum Guide to Zambia Camerapix International Publishing, Nairobi, 1996.
- Terracarta/International Travel Maps, Vancouver Canada: Zambia, 2nd edition, 2000.
