Mongu

Mongu is the capital of Western Province in Zambia and turned into the capital of the formerly-named province and historical state of Barotseland. Its populace is 179,585, and it is also the headquarters of Mongu District. Mongu is situated on a small blunt promontory of higher ground on the eastern edge of the 30-kilometre-huge Barotse Floodplain of the Zambezi River running north-south, which in the moist season floods right up to the town. The town is 15 kilometres from the river's major channel, to which its small harbour is attached in the dry season via a 35-kilometre course through a canal and a meandering channel.

The whole area is flat and sandy, with the dry land usually no extra than 50 m better than the floodplain. Mongu is the home metropolis of the Lozi human beings, who communicate a language derived in element from that of the Makololo, associated with the South African Sesotho language. The Lozi ruler, the Litunga, has a dry season palace 12 km north-west at Lealui at the floodplain, and a flood season palace on higher floor at Limulunga, 17 km north. The Kuomboka rite marks the court's transfer between the two places.