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The Zambezi River Basin Map
The Zambezi River Basin stretches across eight member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), covering about 25 percent of the combined total area of Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. This makes it the largest river basin wholly within the SADC region and the most shared natural resource in the region. The Zambezi Basin is endowed with forest resources that contribute significantly to economic development through the provision of food, shelter, medicine and the sustenance of environmental processes. The Basin drains a total area of almost 1.4 million sq km; the total forest cover is 76,310 sq km.
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