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Luangwa

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[loo-ahng-wah] / luˈɑŋ wɑ /

noun

  1. a river in E Zambia, flowing SSW to the Zambezi River. 500 miles (805 km) long: forms part of boundary with Mozambique.


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The Luangwa River, which flows through Zambia's South Luangwa National Park, is home to one of the highest concentrations of Nile crocodiles in Africa, according to conservationists.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

He’d managed to “militarize” the North Luangwa National Park by arming the scouts and “buying their loyalty with weapons, boots and money.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2022

Finding themselves outnumbered, EWD 1355 and her co-conspirators turn tail and resume their migration, retreating southward from Luembe in linear bursts along the Luangwa River.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2022

The young couple sought out a preserve in Zambia’s North Luangwa wilderness, an area whose indigenous inhabitants had been expelled by the nation’s former British rulers.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2019

If the mouth of the Luangwa River was as bad as everyone said, it wouldn’t have survived anyhow.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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