Malawi
Southern Malawi
Balaka District

Balaka

Balaka is a township in and headquarters for the . The township was formerly a boma of , before the Balaka District was created in 1998.
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  • Type: Town with 41,000 residents
  • Description: city in Malawi
  • Also known as: “Balaka Township”, “Balaka Township, Malawi”, “Balakas”, and “Palaka”

Balaka

Latitude
-14.98587° or 14° 59′ 9″ south
Longitude
34.9603° or 34° 57′ 37″ east
Population
41,000
Elevation
633 metres (2,077 feet)
Open location code
5GQP2X76+M4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 264956932
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
931865
Wiki­data ID
Q804607
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Zulu—“Balaka” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Balaka Township”
  • Cebuano: “Balaka (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Balaka”
  • Chinese: “巴拉卡”
  • Dutch: “Balaka”
  • French: “Balaka”
  • German: “Balaka”
  • German: “MW-BA”
  • Italian: “Balaka”
  • Japanese: “バラカ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Balaka”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Balaka”
  • Persian: “بالاکا، مالاوی”
  • Persian: “بالاکا”
  • Polish: “Balaka”
  • Romanian: “Balaka”
  • Russian: “Балака”
  • Slovak: “Balaka”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بالاکا، مالاوی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بالاکا”
  • Swahili: “Balaka”
  • Swedish: “Balaka”
  • Turkish: “Balaka, Malavi”
  • Turkish: “Balaka”
  • Ukrainian: “Балака”
  • Zulu: “Balaka Township, Malawi”
  • Zulu: “Balaka Township”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Balaka”. Photo: Rockwurm, CC BY-SA 3.0.