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'''Southern Province''' is one of [[Zambia]]'s ten [[Provinces of Zambia|provinces]], and home to Zambia's premier tourist attraction, Mosi-oa-Tunya ([[Victoria Falls]]), shared with [[Zimbabwe]]. The centre of the province, the Southern Plateau, has the largest area of commercial farmland of any Zambian province, and produces most of the maize crop. | |||
The [[Zambezi River]] is the province's southern border, and [[Lake Kariba]], formed by the [[Kariba Dam]], lies along the province's south-eastern edge. The eastern border is the [[Kariba Gorge]] and Zambezi, and the north-east border is the [[Kafue River]] and its gorge, dividing it from [[Lusaka Province]]. The [[Kafue Flats]] lie mostly within the province's northern border with Central Province. In the north west lies part of the famous [[Kafue National Park]], the largest in Zambia, and the lake formed by the Itezhi-Tezhi Dam. The south-western border with Western Province runs through the [[Zambian Teak|teak]] forests around [[Mulobezi]] which once supported a commercial timber industry and for which the [[Mulobezi Railway]] was built. | |||
The provincial capital is [[Choma]]. Until 2011 the provincial capital was [[Livingstone, Zambia|Livingstone City]]. The [[Tonga people|Batonga]] are the largest ethnic group in the Province. A rail line and the [[Lusaka-Livingstone road]] forms the principal transport axis of the province, running through its centre and its farming towns: [[Kalomo]], [[Choma]], [[Pemba, Zambia|Pemba]], [[Monze]], and [[Mazabuka]]. In addition to maize, other commercially important activities include [[sugar cane]] plantations at the edge of the Kafue Flats, and cattle ranching. | |||
Southern Province has the only large source of fossil fuel in Zambia, the Maamba [[coal]] mine in the Zambezi valley, served by a branch line of the railway. | |||
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==National Parks and wildlife areas== | |||
:''For more detail see [[Wildlife of Zambia#Southern Province|Southern Province in the Wildlife of Zambia]]'' | |||
*Southern half of [[Kafue National Park]] | |||
*[[Lochinvar National Park]] and the [[Kafue Flats]] in the north | |||
*[[Victoria Falls National Park]], the Zambezi and Batoka Gorges in the south | |||
*[[Lake Kariba]] in the south-east. | |||
==Districts== | |||
[[Image:Southern Zambia districts.png|thumb|right|250px|Districts of Southern Zambia]] | |||
Southern Province is divided into 13 [[district]]s: | |||
*[[Chikankata District]] | |||
*[[Choma District]] | |||
*[[Gwembe District]] | |||
*[[Kalomo District]] | |||
*[[Kazungula District]] | |||
*[[Livingstone District]] | |||
*[[Mazabuka District]] | |||
*[[Monze District]] | |||
*[[Namwala District]] | |||
*[[Pemba District]] | |||
*[[Siavonga District]] | |||
*[[Sinazongwe District]] | |||
*[[Zimba District]] | |||
==Ministers for Southern Province== | |||
* [[Daniel Munkombwe]] | |||
*[[Alice Simango]] | |||
* [[Joseph Mulyata]] | |||
* [[Chilufya Kazenene]] | |||
{{Districts of Zambia}} | |||
[[Category:Southern Province]] | |||
[[Category:Places in Zambia]] | |||
[[Category:Provinces of Zambia]] | |||
