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'''Luchenza''' is a town located in the Southern Region district of Thyolo in Malawi.

The town has a railway station on the Sena railway, under concession of Central East African Railways.

==Demographics== {| class="wikitable" ! Year ! Population<ref>[http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=en&dat=32&srt=pnan&col=dq&geo=-150 World Gazetteer: Malawi: largest cities and towns and statistics of their population] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927223224/http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=en&dat=32&srt=pnan&col=dq&geo=-150 |date=2007-09-27 }}</ref><ref name="Census2018">{{cite web|url=http://www.nsomalawi.mw/images/stories/data_on_line/demography/census_2018/2018%20Malawi%20Population%20and%20Housing%20Census%20Main%20Report.pdf|title=2018 Population and Housing Census Main Report |publisher=Malawi National Statistical Office |accessdate=25 December 2019}}</ref> |- | 1987 | 4,728 |- | 1998 | 8,842 |- | 2008 | 10,896 |- | 2018 | 12,600 |}

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