{"id":357680,"date":"2026-03-10T15:09:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=357680"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:09:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:39:57","slug":"key-facts-about-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-facts-about-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts About Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>India has dispatched a consignment of 1,000 metric tons of rice to Malawi following the drought caused by the El Nino effect.<\/p>\n<h2>Key Facts About Malawi<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 358px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.worldatlas.com\/upload\/44\/f5\/1f\/mw-01.jpg?resize=358%2C393&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Malawi \" width=\"358\" height=\"393\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: World Atlas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> Malawi is a <strong>landlocked country in southeastern Africa.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is located in the <strong>Great Rift Valley<\/strong> along the <strong>western shore of Lake Malawi<\/strong>, which is the <strong>southernmost lake of the Great African Rift Valley<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Borders:<\/strong> Malawi shares international borders with <strong>Tanzania, Zambia, and Mozambique<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital City:<\/strong>\u00a0The capital of Malawi is\u00a0<strong>Lilongwe<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Climate:<\/b> Predominately <strong>sub-tropical<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Terrain: <\/strong><strong>The region <\/strong>can be divided into <strong>four physiographic regions<\/strong> &#8211;\n<ul>\n<li>Great Rift Valley<\/li>\n<li>The central plateau<\/li>\n<li>Highland region<\/li>\n<li>Isolated mountains<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lakes: <\/strong>The Great Rift Valley hosts <strong>Lake Malawi<\/strong>, the <strong>third-largest lake in Africa<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Major Rivers:<\/strong> The <strong>Shire River<\/strong> is the <strong>largest river in Malawi<\/strong> and serves as the <strong>only outlet of Lake Malawi<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highest Peak:<\/strong> The highest mountain is <strong>Mount Mulanje<\/strong>, with a height of <strong>3,002 m (9,849 ft)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: India has dispatched a consignment of 1,000 metric tons of rice to Malawi following the drought caused by the El Nino effect. Key Facts About Malawi Location: Malawi is a landlocked country in southeastern Africa. It is located in the Great Rift Valley along the western shore of Lake Malawi, which is the southernmost&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-facts-about-malawi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Key Facts About Malawi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,12039,11211],"tags":[11872,11853],"class_list":["post-357680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-dd-news","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}