Salima
town, Malawi
Salima, town in central Malawi, near the southwestern shore of Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi), northwest of the railhead and lake port of Chipoka. Salima developed as a commercial centre after the completion of the Blantyre–Salima railway in the 1930s and served as the road and rail terminus for the agricultural produce of the entire northern region until the railway was extended north and west in the 1970s. The town also functions as a resort, with...