[citation needed] The Likumbi lya Mize festival is a UNESCO world heritage ceremony celebrated in Zambezi District by the Luvale tribe, popularly known as vakaChinyama during August.

The Chivweka ceremony is celebrated by the Luchazi people of the Kabompo District and it is held every July at Senior Chief Kalunga's palace in Chikenge, the capital of the Luchazi people.

The general elevation of the nation as a whole is tended towards West to East from the Kalahari Basin.

The level of land falls from the upper Congo towards the Zambezi depression in the South forming a plateau.

[4] The province lies in the watershed between DR Congo and Zambezi river systems.

The province along with some of the other provinces in the country lies in the frontier formed between the continental divide separating the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, which traverses from DR Congo to the south of Tanzania.

The region has usually Savannah vegetation and small areas of dry evergreen forests.

There are Deputy Permanent Secretary, heads of government departments and civil servants at the provincial level.

There are eleven councils in the province, each of which is headed by an elected representative, called councilor.

[23] The administrative staff of the council is selected based on Local Government Service Commission from within or outside the district.

The government stipulates 63 different functions for the councils with the majority of them being infrastructure management and local administration.

Councils are mandated to maintain each of their community centres, zoos, local parks, drainage system, playgrounds, cemeteries, caravan sites, libraries, museums and art galleries.

They also work along with specific government departments for helping in agriculture, conservation of natural resources, postal service, establishing and maintaining hospitals, schools and colleges.

Sorghum was the major crop in the province with 1,038 metric tonnes, constituting 8.98% of the national output.