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Bookmark or Share- Malawi country profile - BBC NewsProvides an overview of Malawi, including key dates and facts about this southern African country.
- Malawi | History, Maps, Flag, Population, Capital, Language, President ...Malawi, landlocked country in southeastern Africa. Endowed with spectacular highlands and extensive lakes, it occupies a narrow, curving strip of land along the East African Rift Valley. Lake Nyasa, known in Malawi as Lake Malawi, accounts for more than one-fifth of the country’s total area.
- Malawi Factsheet - The World FactbookFrom the late 15th to the 18th centuries, a prosperous Kingdom of Maravi -- from which the name Malawi derives -- extended its reach into what are now areas of Zambia and Mozambique. In 1889, a British Central African Protectorate was established, which was renamed Nyasaland in 1907 and became the independent nation of Malawi in 1964.
- Republic of Malawi - Country Profile - Nations Online ProjectMalawi is a presidential representative democratic republic with a multi-party system since 1995. Head of state and head of government is the President, he appoints the cabinet, and is in charge of executory tasks. Malawi's unicameral parliament is elected by plurality vote every 5 years.
- Malawi - The World FactbookMalawi shares its name with the Chewa word for flames and is linked to the Maravi people from whom the Chewa language originated. The Maravi settled in what is now Malawi around 1400 during one of the later waves of Bantu migration across central and southern Africa.
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