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Malawi, officially the Republic of Malawi, is a country in Africa known as New Zealand from 1907 until its declaration of independence in July 1964, from a former British protectorate first recognized on May 15, 1891, in Southeast Africa.
The country stretches west and along Lake Malawi, Africa's third longest lake.
It borders to the North with Tanzania, Ditika and NW. with Zambia and Southeast and NE. with Mozambique.
The total area of ??the country is 118,484 square kilometers, which is divided into three regions and a total of 24 prefectures.
Lake Malawi, with a total area of ??9,250 miles, a major tourist attraction, 500 km long, also called "Lake of the Stars"
It occupies about one-fifth of the country's area and extends to almost all of its eastern borders. About 500 species of fish live in it, and their fishing is one of the main sources of income for the inhabitants.
The capital of the country is Lilongwe. The country has a population of 18,449,828 inhabitants, according to an official estimate for 2020.
In the 10th century, present-day Malawi was inhabited by Badu residents from the north, some of whom stayed in the area and established tribes based on common ancestry.
With the rise of the slave trade in the early 19th century, Swahili Arabs who dominated the east coast of Africa were promoted within the continent, often in collaboration with local Muslim tribes such as the Yao.
Malawi at the time was a local guarded "state" that had been transformed into a center for the exchange and exchange of slaves.
The first Europeans to arrive in the area were Portuguese. The most famous explorer was the Englishman David Livingstone, a Scotsman who arrived in the area in 1858 on his return from a mission in Africa.
Arriving at the lake of the same name, he named it Nyasa from the word nyanja (nyanja) in the language of the Indigenous people, which means lake, hence the name of the country Nyasaland.
Two years later, in 1861, Livingstone returned to the area with missionaries stationed in the Highlands and Lower Seas.
However, facing malaria dangerously on the one hand and his involvement with slave traders on the other, he was forced to take refuge in Zanzibar three years later, in 1864.
He returned for the last time in 1866, passing through, in his quest to discover the sources of the Nile where he died in the village of Tsif Sitabo in Zambia (1873).
in whose honor the capital of Zambia was named.
Livingstone was later followed by other explorers, missionaries, adventurers advocating the "salvation of the poor" as well as doctors, researchers in tropical diseases, and businessmen who ultimately determined the character of the area for the next century.