Liwonde, population 15,701 (1998), is a city in the Southern Region of Malawi. 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Southern Region may be: Southern Region, Malawi Southern Region of British Railways This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Located on the Shire River along the main road connecting Zomba to Lilongwe, Liwonde is an important city connecting the four districts (Balaka, Machinga, Mangochi and Zomba). The city has basic services: water, electicity and telephone; however, like most secondary cities, they can prove unreliable at times.

Liwonde is however better known more widely because of its proximity to Liwonde National Park. It is becoming more important as the staging area for trips into Liwonde National Park. From Liwonde, the park is accessible by boat along the Shire River (all year around) or by vehicle from the south entrance.

The city itself has a reputation of being hot. As you drive down from Zomba, the heat and the humitidy of the valley can be sharply felt. The trees become spare and the grasses, baobab and flame trees share the land with brick walled, iron sheet homesteads.