Mafia Island
Mafia Island or Chole Shamba is an island of the Mafia Archipelago located in Mafia District in the southern Pwani Region of Tanzania across the Mafia Channel.- Island
- …lies at an elevation of 22 metres (72 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code MFA
- …was formerly known as “Monfea Island”
- Also known as“Chole Shamba”“Tschole-Schamba”“Tshole-Shamba”
Mafia Island
- Category: landform
- Location
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Latitude
-7.85378° or 7° 51′ 14″ south
Longitude
39.78041° or 39° 46′ 50″ east
Open location code
6G4X4QWJ+F5
GeoNames ID
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swahili—“Mafia Island” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Мафия”
- Esperanto: “Mafia”
- Estonian: “Mafia”
- Finnish: “Mafia”
- French: “Île de Mafia”
- German: “Mafia”
- Italian: “Mafia”
- Lithuanian: “Mafijos sala”
- Polish: “Mafia”
- Russian: “Мафия”
- Swahili: “Mafia”
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