Cidade de Nacala
Nacala is a city on the northern coast of Mozambique. Located in the southwestern indentation of inner Fernao Veloso Bay, it is the deepest natural port on the east coast of Africa.
- Type: City with 389,000 residents
- Description: port city in Nampula Province, Mozambique
- Also known as: “Fernão Veloso”, “Maaia”, “Maiaia”, “Nacala”, and “Nacala-Porto”
Cidade de Nacala
- Categories: port city, municipality of Mozambique, big city, district of Mozambique, and locality
- Location: Nampula Province, Mozambique, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-14.5583° or 14° 33′ 30″ south
Longitude
40.6864° or 40° 41′ 11″ east
Population
389,000
Elevation
137 metres (449 feet)
IATA airport code
MNC
United Nations Location Code
MZ MNC
Open location code
5HQ2CMRP+MH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Cidade de Nacala” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Nacala”
- Arabic: “نكالا”
- Bengali: “নাকালা”
- Catalan: “Nacala”
- Cebuano: “Nacala”
- Chinese: “納卡拉”
- Chinese: “纳卡拉”
- Croatian: “Nacala”
- Danish: “Nacala”
- Dutch: “Nacala”
- Esperanto: “Nacala”
- Finnish: “Nacala”
- French: “Nacala Porto”
- French: “Nacala”
- French: “Port-Nacala”
- Georgian: “ნაკალა”
- German: “Nacala”
- Greek: “Νακάλα”
- Gujarati: “નાકેલા”
- Hebrew: “נקאלה”
- Hindi: “नकाला”
- Indonesian: “Nacala”
- Irish: “Nacala”
- Italian: “Nacala”
- Japanese: “ナカラ”
- Kannada: “ನಕಾಲಾ”
- Korean: “나칼라”
- Latvian: “Nakala”
- Lithuanian: “Nakala”
- Malagasy: “Nacala”
- Malay: “Nacala”
- Marathi: “नाकेला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nacala”
- Norwegian: “Nacala”
- Persian: “ناکالا، موزامبیک”
- Polish: “Nacala”
- Portuguese: “Nacala Porto”
- Portuguese: “Nacala”
- Romanian: “Nacala”
- Russian: “Город-де-Накала”
- Russian: “Накала”
- Sinhala: “නකලා”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Nacala Puerto”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Nacala-Puerto”
- Spanish: “Nacala”
- Swahili: “Nacala Porto”
- Swahili: “Nacala”
- Swedish: “Nacala”
- Tamil: “நாக்கால”
- Telugu: “నకల”
- Thai: “เกาะนาคูลา”
- Turkish: “Nacala”
- Ukrainian: “Накала”
- Urdu: “ناکالا”
- Venetian: “Nacala”
- Vietnamese: “Nacala”
- Zulu: “Nacala”
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