[3]: 167-168 [8]: 204 The district has a wide shore of Lake Nyasa with beaches in Lupingu and Manda and the mouth of Ruhuhu River.

[2]: 2 The primary occupations are livestock raising, subsistence farming, and fishing which encompasses 78% of peoples livelyhoods.

The complex is to produce one mt/y of steel, iron, titanium dioxide, and vanadium pentoxide.

[10]: 31 There is a small amount of artisanal mining of gold and gem quality green tourmaline.

[11]: 114 Ludewa District is administratively divided into five divisions, twenty-six wards, with 77 villages, and 337 vitongoji.