Chilubi
Sign in to saveright|225px|thumb|Location of Chilubi town and district in Northern Province, Zambia, showing extent of Lake Bangweulu (blue line) and swamps (grey line) Chilubi is a settlement on an island in Lake Bangweulu and its swamps, and is headquarters of Chilubi District in the Northern Province of Zambia.
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Zambia
- Located in
- Chilubi District
- Population
- +3542
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- www.chilubicouncil.gov.zm
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5 sectionsContents
- Chilubi Island
- Chilubi town
- History
- See also
- References
right|225px|thumb|Location of Chilubi town and district in Northern Province, Zambia, showing extent of Lake Bangweulu (blue line) and swamps (grey line) Chilubi is a settlement on an island in Lake Bangweulu and its swamps, and is headquarters of Chilubi District in the Northern Province of Zambia.
==Chilubi Island== Chilubi Island lies just north of the centre of the eastern side of the lake. It has an unusual zig-zag shape of about five segments, each about 12 km long and 1.5 to 3 km wide. It resembles a Chinese dragon with its head (at the north-west end) just in the open lake and its body and tail (south-east end) in the swamps. The shortest distance on land from nose to tail is 25 km, and it has about 100 km of shoreline. The smaller Nsumbu Island lies 1 km south-east of Chilubi Island. Satellite image: