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Blantyre hotels(tourism)
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Blantyre-Limbe doctors(health)
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Blantyre (sh)




City (pop., 1998: 502,053), southern Malawi.

The largest city in Malawi, it was founded in 1876 as a Church of Scotland mission station and named after David Livingstone's Scottish birthplace. It became a British consular post in 1883 and attained municipal status in 1895; it is Malawi's oldest municipality. Its colonial trade laid the foundation for its present importance as Malawi's chief commercial centre. In 1956 Blantyre was united with nearby Limbe.