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The people and the land

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Lake Chilwa

Part of the book series: Monographiae Biologicae ((MOBI,volume 35))

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Malawi is one of the smaller states in East Africa, but its population density is about tenfold that of the neighbouring states of Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia, which share common boundaries with it. The total population in 1977 was just over five and a half million (Population Census 1978). The area of Malawi, including land and water, is 118,485 km2. The Lakes Malawi, Malombe, Chilwa and Chiuta cover 21 per cent of the total area and in addition there is another 5.5 per cent of wetlands, including marshes, swamps and deltaic areas of rivers and the seasonally flooded grassland of low–lying areas, leaving 92,989 km2 of inhabitable land, 58 per cent of which is arable (Agnew & Stubbs 1972).

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  1. Swanzie Agnew
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Malawi c/o Zoology Department, University of the Witwaterstand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Margaret Kalk Ph.D. (Professor Emeritus of Biology) (Professor Emeritus of Biology)

  2. Department of Zoology, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newcastle, England

    A. J. McLachlan Ph.D.

  3. Institute of Freshwater Studies, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

    C. Howard-Williams Ph.D.

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Agnew, S. (1979). The people and the land. In: Kalk, M., McLachlan, A.J., Howard-Williams, C. (eds) Lake Chilwa. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9594-9_17

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