Binga
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Binga Town is a fishing, boating and cultural centre towards the western end of Lake Kariba's southern eastern shore in the Matabeleland North Province of Zimbabwe.
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The town is an administrative hub created for the Tonga people who originally lived along the Zambezi River and who were re-located inland and to the south, when Lake Kariba was built and its rising waters covered their traditional homes. The name Binga has two meanings "the enclosure surrounding a chief's village" or "thick forest country"
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Chibwatatata Hot Springs
Zambezi River
Lake Kariba
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