Kasungu

Kasungu

▪ Malaŵi
      town, central Malawi. The economy of Kasungu depends mainly on tobacco production, and tourism in the city has developed with the opening of the nearly 914-square-mile (2,367-square-km) Kasungu National Park (1970). The town is situated near the farm where the country's first president, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, was born. The surrounding area is mainly composed of “sand veld,” brown loams underlain with sandy clays, and is deficient in soil nutrients and water supply. Pop. (1998) 27,754.

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