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Malawi (/ məˈlɑːwi /; lit. 'flames' in Chichewa and Chitumbuka), [9] officially the Republic of Malawi and formerly known as Nyasaland, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast, and Mozambique to the east, south and southwest.
The first wind turbine. William Kamkwamba (born August 5, 1987, in Kasungu, Malawi), is a Malawian inventor, engineer, and author. He gained renown in his country in 2001 when he built a wind turbine to power multiple electrical appliances in his family's house in Wimbe, 23 kilometres (14 mi) east of Kasungu, using blue gum trees, bicycle parts, and materials collected in a local scrapyard.
Demographics of Malawi. Demographic features of the population of Malawi include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. Malawi derives its name from the Maravi, a Bantu people who came from the southern Congo about 600 years ago.
IANA time zone database. In the IANA time zone database, Malawi is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Blantyre. "MW" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Malawi directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:
The history of Malawi covers the area of present-day Malawi. The region was once part of the Maravi Empire (Maravi was a kingdom which straddled the current borders of Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, in the 16th century). In colonial times, the territory was ruled by the British, under whose control it was known first as British Central Africa ...
East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical, historical, and cultural landscape.
Lilongwe (UK: / l ɪ ˈ l ɒ ŋ w eɪ /, US: /-w i, l ɪ ˈ l ɔː ŋ w eɪ /,) is the capital and largest city of Malawi. [3] It has a population of 989,318 as of the 2018 Census, up from a population of 674,448 in 2008. [4]
Joyce Banda. Joyce Hilda Banda (née Ntila; born 12 April 1950 [2]) is a Malawian politician, who served as President of Malawi, from 7 April 2012 to 31 May 2014. Banda took office as President following the sudden death of President Bingu wa Mutharika. She is the founder and leader of the People's Party, created in 2011. [3]