Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park
Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park is a national park in Zambia and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that is home to one-half of the Mosi-oa-Tunya—"The Smoke that Thunders", known worldwide as Victoria Falls—on the Zambezi River.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Park
- Description: national park of Zambia
- Also known as: “Mosi Oa Tunya” and “Victoria Falls Trust”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Old Drift cemetery.
Old Drift cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Talizman58, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Old Drift Cemetery is a small burial site near the Zambezi river in modern-day Zambia. It includes the graves of early European settlers and visitors to nearby Victoria Falls who died of causes such as malaria and is located in Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Livingstone and Victoria Falls.
Livingstone
Photo: cowbridgeguide.co.uk, CC BY 3.0.
Livingstone is to Zambia what the town of Victoria Falls is to Zimbabwe. Formerly known as Maramba, it was the capital of Zambia before it was moved to Lusaka. Livingstone is in the Southern Province of Zambia and is the tourist capital of the country.
Victoria Falls
Town
Photo: Chris Eason, CC BY 2.0.
Victoria Falls, popularly known as Vic Falls, is a resort town and city in the province of Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe. It lies on the southern bank of the Zambezi River at the western end of Victoria Falls themselves. Victoria Falls is situated 6 km south of Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park.
Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park
- Category: national park
- Location: Southern Province, Zambia, Southern Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Parque nacional de Mosi-oa-Tunya”
- Cebuano: “Mosi-Oa-Tunya National Park No. 17”
- Chinese: “莫西奧圖尼亞國家公園”
- Dutch: “nationaal park Mosi-oa-Tunya”
- Dutch: “Nationaal park Mosi-oa-Tunya”
- Esperanto: “Nacia Parko Mosi-oa-Tunya”
- Finnish: “Mosi-oa-Tunyan kansallispuisto”
- French: “parc national de Mosi-oa-Tunya”
- French: “Parc national de Mosi-oa-Tunya”
- German: “Mosi-oa-Tunya-Nationalpark”
- Hebrew: “הפארק הלאומי מוסי אואה טוניה”
- Italian: “Parco nazionale Mosi-oa-Tunya”
- Japanese: “モシオア・トゥニャ国立公園”
- Persian: “پارک ملی موسی وا تونیا”
- Portuguese: “Parque Nacional de Mosi-oa-Tunya”
- Russian: “Моси-Оа-Тунья (национальный парк)”
- Russian: “Моси-Оа-Тунья”
- Slovenian: “Nacionalni park Mosi-oa-Tunya”
- Spanish: “Parque nacional de Mosi-oa-Tunya”
- Swahili: “Hifadhi ya Taifa ya Mosi-oa-Tunya”
- Turkish: “Mosi-oa-Tunya Millî Parkı”
- Ukrainian: “Мосі-оа-Тунья (національний парк)”
- Ukrainian: “Мосі-оа-Тунья”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Canary Island and Lwaando Island.
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