Chadiza District with the headquarters at Chadiza

Chadiza

Chadiza is a town in the Eastern Province of Zambia, and is headquarters of Chadiza District. It lies 35 km south of the Great East Road and about 80 km south-south-west of Chipata on a plateau studded by isolated rocky hills, between the middle Luangwa valley and the...

 lies in the extreme south-east corner of Zambia

Zambia

Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....

, bordering Malawi

Malawi

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 to its east and Mozambique

Mozambique

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to its south. The eastern half of the district is characterised by wooded rocky hills rising to 1330 m while the western half has the same character as the land around Chadiza town. This part of the district has been almost completely deforested and suffers soil erosion.

As of the 2000 Zambian Census, the district had a population of 83,981 people.