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Likoma District

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district of Malawi

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Country
Malawi
Located in
Northern Region
Capital
Likoma
Area
18
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Location of Likoma District in Malawi Likoma District is the least populous district of Malawi, which consists of two separate exclaves of Malawi situated within Mozambican waters in Lake Malawi (also known in Tanzania as Lake Nyasa and in surrounding Mozambique as Lago Niassa). It consists of two main islands, Likoma and Chizumulu. It is a district in the Northern Region of Malawi. The capital is Likoma. The district covers an area of 20 km², and has a population of 14,527.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Likoma District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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