Malawi map quiz
Explore the cities of Malawi!
Quizzes in this pack
Malawi: cities, landmarks.
| Cities | 8 questions |
| Landmarks | 8 questions |
Sample questions
- Capital city in the central region, a planned city that replaced Blantyre as capital in 1975, divided into old town markets and a modern Capital Hill government district
- Answer: Lilongwe
- Largest city and commercial capital in the southern highlands, named after David Livingstone's Scottish birthplace, the country's main economic hub with colonial-era buildings and Mount Soche nearby
- Answer: Blantyre
- Third-largest city and capital of the Northern Region, a highland trading centre and gateway to Nkhata Bay on Lake Malawi and the Viphya forest plateau
- Answer: Mzuzu
- Former colonial capital at the base of Zomba Plateau, home to the University of Malawi, with dramatic mountain scenery, waterfalls, and botanical gardens from the British era
- Answer: Zomba
- Lake town at the southern end of Lake Malawi where the Shire River flows out, a gateway to the lake's beaches and Cape Maclear, with a clock tower memorial and strong Muslim heritage
- Answer: Mangochi
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Lilongwe
Central Malawi
Lilongwe became the capital of Malawi in 1975, taking over from Zomba. It is a spread-out city with the busy Old Town on one side and Capital Hill, where the government sits, on the other.
- Did you know?
- Lake Malawi has more kinds of fish than any other lake
Mzuzu
Northern Malawi
Mzuzu is the main city of northern Malawi, founded in the late 1940s as the centre of a tung-oil plantation scheme. It lies among pine forests near the Viphya Plateau and has a university.
- Known for
- The Viphya Plateau, pine forests, the university
Salima
Central lakeshore
Salima is a town near the central shore of Lake Malawi, the nearest lakeside town to Lilongwe. Senga Bay, with sandy beaches, rocky islands and colourful cichlid fish, lies just to the east.
- Known for
- Lake Malawi, Senga Bay, cichlid fish
Lake Malawi
Great Rift Valley
Lake Malawi is the third-largest lake in Africa after Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika, about 580 km long, in the Great Rift Valley. It has more kinds of fish than any other lake in the world, many of them colourful cichlids found nowhere else. David Livingstone called it the lake of stars, after the lamps of night fishermen.
- Length
- About 580 km
Liwonde National Park
Southern Malawi
Liwonde National Park lies along the Shire River, which flows out of Lake Malawi. Hippos and crocodiles crowd the river, and since 2015 elephants have been moved and lions and cheetahs brought back after years of poaching.
- Opened
- 1973
Nkhata Bay
Northern Lake Malawi
Nkhata Bay is a small port town on the north-west shore of Lake Malawi, in a bay ringed by green hills. Fishermen paddle out in dugout canoes, and the lake ferry Ilala stops here.
- Did you know?
- The ferry Ilala has sailed the lake since 1951
How it works
Pick a quiz, then find, name or choose your answer on the 3D globe. A round has 10 questions by default, or more, up to the whole quiz. Each round picks what you need most: questions due again, new ones and the places you tend to mix up. In a short round, the questions you miss are asked once more at the end. Spaced repetition then brings them back on later days until you know them.
Every round also fills your mastery badges for the continent or country, the topic and the whole world: bronze at 50%, silver at 80% and gold at 100%.
