Chipata

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Chipata is a border town in Zambia near the border with Malawi. Chipata is the capital of the eastern province and the seat of administration of the same district with 367 539 inhabitants ( 2000 census ).

The railway network of the Malawi Railways starts in 35 km distant Mchinji. An extension to Chipata is finished except for the laying of the tracks. Chipata is located on the Great East Road from Lusaka to Lilongwe in Malawi, which leads through the difficult terrain of Mpangwe Hills next to the traffic-technically more difficult to be developed valley of the Luangwa. Chipata was during the civil war in Mozambique repeatedly been the target of large waves of refugees. The shaped this city and its surroundings, because not all refugees have returned after the end of the Civil War.

Chipata is a market town of regional significance. Are comparable over a wide area only Tete in Mozambique and Lilongwe in Malawi. The city has a golf course and an airstrip, schools and hospitals, shops and banks. The safaris in the wildlife sanctuaries of the Luangwatales start here. Therefore, there are restaurants and hotels. The golf club was founded in 1906.

In the surrounding area there are limestone deposits.