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Four countries almost meet at Kazungula
Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia converge within a short stretch of the Zambezi The crossing sits where the Chobe and Zambezi rivers come close together. Strictly the meeting is two separate tripoints about 150 metres apart rather than a single shared corner. A road bridge opened in 2021 replaced a ferry and pontoon crossing that had served lorries for decades. It sits in Mondo's world geography collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Four countries almost meet at Kazungula: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia converge within a short stretch of the Zambezi. The figure is taken from CIA World Factbook, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a world geography fact?
- Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
- What else can I read about it?
- The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.