Blantyre
About Blantyre
Blantyre is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce, and its second largest city, with a population of 800,264 as of 2018. It is sometimes referred to as the commercial and industrial capital of Malawi as opposed to the political capital, Lilongwe. It is the capital of the country's Southern Region as well as the Blantyre District.
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Blantyre is known as the New York of Malawi. That's where Livingston was born in Scotland — there's a Blantyre in Scotland.
from No Such Thing As Doing A Solzhenitsyn, 2026-03-26 at 00:29:03 · read transcript
Other times Blantyre came up
With many places, but not with that town. How interesting. There is a statue in Blantyre in Scotland of Livingston fending off a lion attack. It's designed by Ray Harryhausen. No.
No Such Thing As Doing A Solzhenitsyn, 2026-03-26 · listen
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Coordinates: 55.7949, -4.0972