Kalabo

Kalabo is an urban centre and the seat of Kalabo District in the Western Province of Zambia. It stands on the plains west of the Zambezi River and the Barotse Floodplain, on the bank of the Luanginga River, where a small pontoon ferry links it to a dirt track running north-west towards the Angolan border. By road it lies about 660 kilometres west of Lusaka and about 58 kilometres east of Sikongo, and the town is the base for visits to Liuwa Plain National Park. The 2010 census counted 2,178 people in the town and an estimate for 2020 gave 7,731. The completed Mongu-Kalabo Road, 70 kilometres long and crossing the floodplain on the Barotse Floodplain Causeway, ended the isolation the town suffered when rains cut the old dirt tracks, and Kalabo Airport lies about 4 kilometres to the west.