Balaka
Balaka is a township in Southern Region, Malawi and headquarters for the Balaka District. The township was formerly a boma of Machinga District, before the Balaka District was created in 1998.- Town with 41,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 633 metres (2,077 feet)
- Description: city in Malawi
- Also known as“Balaka Township”“Balaka Township, Malawi”“Balakas”“Palaka”
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Latitude
-14.98587° or 14° 59′ 9″ south
Longitude
34.9603° or 34° 57′ 37″ east
Open location code
5GQP2X76+M4
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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”
- Hausa: “Garin Balaka”
- Italian: “Balaka”
- Japanese: “バラカ”
- Northern Frisian: “Balaka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Balaka”
- 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”
- Urdu: “بالاکا ٹاؤن شپ، ملاوی”
- Zulu: “Balaka Township, Malawi”
- Zulu: “Balaka Township”
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