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Which river is the longest in Southern Africa?
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Sand dunes and vegetation at Sossusvlei in the Namib desert, Namibia.
The Zambezi River is the longest river in Southern Africa. It flows eastward for approximately 2,200 miles (3,540 kilometers) from its source on the Central African Plateau to the Indian Ocean.12