Where is Chintheche, Northern located?

Chintheche is located in Northern, Malawi, at approximate coordinates -11.8314°, 34.1693°.

Chintheche

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Elevation482 m

Coordinates-11.83°, 34.17°

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Elevation

482 m

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Overview

Chintheche is a settlement in the Nkhata Bay District of the Northern Region of Malawi. It is on the shore of Lake Malawi, and is approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) south of Nkhata Bay. The town is on the main road (M5) between Nkhata Bay and Nkhotakota.

History & geography

History

Chintheche Town was until about 1950 the headquarters of Nkhata Bay district then called West Nyasa. In the 1970s, the government of Hastings Banda planned to develop Chintheche into a new town of 25000 people, with a new harbour and a paper-processing plant. To accommodate the new development, residents of Chintheche were displaced further inland. The scheme would have created employment for thousands of people, but for the most part did not come to fruition; however, the displaced residents though not officially allowed to return to their lakeshore homes, actually returned at the revert to multiparty democracy in the early 1990s. Prominent people to have come from Chintheche Town or its hinterland include Elliot Kamwana, Yesaya Zerenji Mwasi and Clements Kadalie

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