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Northern Province, Zambia

Mbala

8.840° S, 31.366° E

Mbala is Zambia's most northerly large town and seat of Mbala District in Northern Province, occupying a strategic location close to the border with Tanzania and controlling the southern approaches to Lake Tanganyika, 40 km by road to the north-west, where the port of Mpulungu is located. It had a population of about 20,000 in 2006. Under the name Abercorn, Mbala was a key outpost in British colonial control of this part of south-central Africa.

From the Wikipedia article Mbala, Zambia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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The past twelve months

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ERA5 reanalysis from Copernicus, via Open-Meteo. Modelled on a ~25 km grid, not measured at a station.

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CAMS European and global air quality forecast, via Open-Meteo. Modelled on an 11–40 km grid; European AQI bands from the EEA.

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Articles with coordinates within 10 km, from English Wikipedia.

Towns around Mbala

Straight-line distance and compass bearing from the town centre.