Cidade de Nacala

Nacala is a city on the northern coast of . Located in the southwestern indentation of inner , it is the deepest natural port on the east coast of Africa.
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  • Type: City with 389,000 residents
  • Description: port city in Nampula Province, Mozambique
  • Also known as: “Ciudad de Nacala Puerto”, “Ciudad de Nacala-Puerto”, “Fernão Veloso”, “Maaia”, “Maiaia”, “Nacala”, “Nacala-Porto”, and “Port-Nacala”

Cidade de Nacala

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
UN/LOCODE
MZ MNC
Open location code
5HQ2CMRP+MH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 899428278
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1035025
Wiki­data ID
Q990080
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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”
  • 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”
  • Persian: “ناکالا”
  • Polish: “Nacala”
  • Portuguese: “Nacala Porto”
  • Romanian: “Nacala”
  • Russian: “Город-де-Накала”
  • Russian: “Накала”
  • Sinhala: “නකලා”
  • Spanish: “Nacala”
  • 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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Places to explore: Mathapue and Máchecute.

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Highlights: Sede da Frelimo Nacala Porto and Campo do Bela Vista.

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