Place:Blantyre, Southern, Malawi

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NameBlantyre
Alt namesBlantyresource: Wikipedia
TypeDistrict
Coordinates15.767°S 35.0°E
Located inSouthern, Malawi     (1876 - )
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Blantyre is a district in the Southern Region of Malawi. The capital is Blantyre, a commercial city where most Malawian industrial and business offices are. The district covers an area of 2,012 km² and has a population of 809,397. It was named after Blantyre, the birth village of David Livingstone in Scotland, one of the first missionary explorers who came to Nyasaland, as Malawi was called before independence in 1964. It is also a main trading point besides the other large cities in Malawi. The other large cities are Lilongwe, which is located in the central region, and Mzuzu, which is in the northern part of Malawi.

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