Chitipa District

[1] Chitipa borders fellow districts Karonga and Rumphi, as well as neighboring countries Tanzania and Zambia.

The political arm is headed by an elected council chairperson, a position which has been held by Isaac Mwepa since 2014.

Chibemba is also classified in zone M, but in a different group, while Chitumbuka is a little more distant and is classified as belonging to zone N. The Nyiha language (Chinyiha or Cinyiha) is spoken in the far north-west corner of the district but also, in a form called Chinyika (which is described as a dialect of Chinyiha heavily influenced by Chitumbuka)[6] further south around the village of Chisenga.

Between these two, around the town of Chitipa itself, Lambya is dominant, although there are also pockets of speakers of Chinamwanga, Mambwe and Bemba.

To the east of Chitipa, south of the Tanzanian border, live speakers of Chisukwa and Chindali.