Malawi, landlocked country in southeastern Africa. Endowed with spectacular highlands and extensive lakes, it occupies a narrow, curving strip of land along the East African Rift Valley. Lake Nyasa, known in Malawi as Lake Malawi, accounts for more than one-fifth of the country’s total area.
Malawi, located in southeastern Africa, is one of the smaller nations in the continent and covers an area of 118,484 sq. km. Completely landlocked, Malawi's main body of water is the enormous lake from which the nation gets its name.