Mbala, Zambia

Mbala
Mbala is located in Zambia
Mbala
Mbala
Coordinates: 8°50′S 31°28′E / 8.833°S 31.467°E / -8.833; 31.467
Country Zambia
ProvinceNorthern Province
DistrictMbala District
Time zoneUTC+2 (CAT)
ClimateCwb

Mbala is Zambia's most northerly large town and seat of Mbala District in Northern Province,[1][better source needed] occupying a strategic location close to the border with Tanzania and controlling the southern approaches to Lake Tanganyika, 40 km by road to the north-west, where the port of Mpulungu is located. It had a population of about 20,000 in 2006. Under the name Abercorn, Mbala was a key outpost in British colonial control of this part of south-central Africa.[2]

  1. ^ "Afrique Centre et Sud", Carte Routiere et Touristique Michelin, Paris (1996).
  2. ^ The Northern Rhodesia Journal, Vol 4 No 6 (1961) pp. 515–527. Hope and Marion Gamwell: ”The History of Abercorn”. Accessed 7 March 2007.