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Lilongwe

American  
[li-lawng-wey] / lɪˈlɔŋ weɪ /

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of Malawi, in the SW part.


Lilongwe British  
/ lɪˈlɒŋwɪ /

noun

  1. the capital of Malawi, in the central part west of Lake Malawi. Pop: 655 000 (2005 est)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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After Mutharika failed to get the dogs back in November, the Lilongwe Magistrate Court temporarily barred police from further attempts to seize them.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 13, 2026

After losing his re-election bid last year, he ordered all four guard dogs at the presidential palace in Lilongwe loaded into a police truck and delivered to his private residence, 6 miles away.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 13, 2026

Police in Malawi are investigating how four police dogs went missing from a presidential palace in the capital, Lilongwe, during the political transition in September.

From BBC Nov. 27, 2025

For the past few months Ms Kathumba, a divorced mother of four working in the capital, Lilongwe, has been struggling to survive on her salary because of the surging prices of goods in the market.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2025

His tobacco fetched a high price each year at the Auction Holdings Limited in Lilongwe, where the farmers sold their hundred-kilogram bales on the auction floor.

From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba

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