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The lower Luapula River, its delta where is enters Lake Mweru, and Mweru's outlet, the Luvua River going on north to the Lualaba and Congo rivers. Water shows up as black in this false-colour NASA satellite image. The extent of the Luapula Swamps is shown by the solid blue line, and the extent of the floodplain is shown as a dotted line. The towns are, in Zambia: 1 Chiengi, 2 Kashikishi, 3 Nchelenge, 4 Mwansabombwe, 5 Mwense; in DR Congo: 6 Pweto, 7 Kilwa, 8 Kasenga. Other features: 9: Chisenga Island, 10 the largest swamp island (in DR Congo), 11 the main floodplain. Image credit: Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC. | | Africa | Congo | transnational | Zambia | DR Congo | Lake Bangweulu | Zambia | Lake Mweru | Luapula Province | Lake Bangweulu | Chambeshi River | David Livingstone | Lake Bangweulu | Bangweulu Wetlands ecosystem | Chembe Ferry | delta | Chibemba | rift valley | graben | Great Rift Valley | Luvua River | Lualaba River | meteoritic impact crater (an astrobleme) | Mofwe Lagoon | papyrus | reeds | dugout | Crocodile | hippopotamus | lechwe | sitatunga | Lunda | Mwata Kazembe | Mwansabombwe | Arab | Zanzibar | Portuguese | Mozambique | David Livingstone | Briton | Nile | Plymouth Brethren | London Missionary Society | Mbereshi | Elizabethville | Katanga | Copperbelt | fisheries | Lake Mweru | sleeping sickness | British | colonial | boma | Mansa | malaria | Kawambwa | Mwansabombwe | Northern Rhodesia | railhead | Ndola | World War I | matériel | Mbala | East African Campaign | pontoon | Chembe Ferry | Congo Pedicle road | Samfya | Serenje | Chembe Bridge | Lake Mweru | Mofwe Lagoon | Lake Bangweulu | Chambeshi River | Congo Pedicle | Luvua River | Congo River | Katanga | Luapula Province | Mwata Kazembe | Categories | Rivers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Rivers of Zambia |
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