Western Province, Zambia

Western Province is one of the ten provinces of Zambia and covers most of the area formerly known as Barotseland. Its capital is Mongu, and together with the neighbouring town of Limulunga, Mongu is treated as the capital of Barotseland. The landscape is dominated by the Barotse Floodplain of the Zambezi River. The main road into the province is the 590-kilometre Lusaka to Mongu road from Central Province through Kaoma. Each year the Litunga and his court migrate from the dry-season capital of Lealui to Limulunga in the Kuomboka ceremony, now a major cultural and tourist event. At the 2010 census the province had 902,974 people, and the total area was given as 126,386 square kilometres.