Barotseland
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Barotseland is a region in the western part of Zambia, and is the homeland of the Lozi people or Barotse. Its heartland is the upper Zambezi valley floodplain known as Bulozi or Lyondo, and surrounding upland area comprising all of what is now the Western Province of Zambia, but in earlier times, Barotseland included some neighbouring parts of what are now the Northwestern, Central and Southern Province as well as Caprivi in northeastern Namibia and parts of southeastern Angola beyond the Cuando or Mashi River.
Historically its status at the onset of the colonial era differed from the other regions which became Zambia, and it has had substantial autonomy within the nation, and some support exists for its secession.
Barotseland is Zambia's least developed region, with only one tarred road into the province, from Lusaka to the provincial capital of Mongu. Electricity supplies are erratic, relying on an aging connection to the hydroelectric plant at Victoria Falls.
The traditional monarch of Barotseland is called the Litunga.
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