Machinga
Machinga is a town in the Southern Region of Malawi, a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa. It is the administrative capital of Machinga District.- Type: Town with 1,420 residents
- Description: town in Malawi
- Also known as: “Kasupe” and “Machinga, Malawi”
Machinga
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Machinga District, Southern Malawi, Malawi, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-15.17664° or 15° 10′ 36″ south
Longitude
35.29821° or 35° 17′ 54″ east
Population
1,420
Elevation
768 metres (2,520 feet)
Open location code
5GPQR7FX+87
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Machinga” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حي ماشينغا”
- Cebuano: “Machinga (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Machinga”
- Dutch: “Machinga”
- Japanese: “マチンガ”
- Nyanja: “Machinga”
- Portuguese: “Machinga”
- Russian: “Мачинга”
- Swedish: “Machinga (distriktshuvudort)”
- Swedish: “Machinga, Malawi”
- Turkish: “Machinga, Malavi”
- Turkish: “Machinga”
- Ukrainian: “Мачинга”
- Zulu: “Machinga, Malawi”
- Zulu: “Machinga”
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