The Luapula River is a river in central Africa. It flows from Lake Bangweulu in Zambia to Lake Mweru on the border between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). For much of its course it serves as part of the boundary between Zambia and the DRC. For the Second World War frigate class, see River class frigate The Murray River in Australia A river is a large natural waterway. ... Africa is the worlds second-largest continent and second most populous after Asia. ... Lake Bangweulu is a large but shallow lake in Zambia. ... Lake Mweru is a lake located on the border between Zambia and Democratic Republic of the Congo, about 150 km west of the southern end of Lake Tanganyika. ...
The Chambeshi River flows into the Luapula in the vicinity of Lake Bangweulu. The Chambeshi River is a river in Zambia. ...
Northern Rhodesia needed the Pedicle Road that connects Luapula Province to the Copperbelt.
He noted that as the frontier between Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo was situated in Lake Mweru and on the thalweg of the Luapula in a part of its course, it was appropriate for each of the riparian states to exercise their sovereign rights in the waters falling respectively under their jurisdiction.
The maps showed the frontier deviating from the centre of the Lake and passing to the west of Kilwa Island which, the Belgians said, was a peninsula attached to Belgian territory.
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