Sambava

Sambava is a city and commune at the east coast of northern . It is the capital of and . The population of the commune was 84,039 in as of the 2018 commune census. North of Sambava is the Ampasimbato Lake.
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Photo: Tonton Bernardo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Town with 84,000 residents
  • Description: commune in Madagascar
  • Also known as: “Sahambava”, “Sahambavany”, and “Sambaha”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sambava Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: Tonton Bernardo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an airport in Sambava, , . is situated 3½ km southeast of Sambava.

Sambava

Latitude
-14.255° or 14° 15′ 18″ south
Longitude
50.1557° or 50° 9′ 20″ east
Population
84,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
IATA airport code
SVB
United Nations Location Code
MG SVB
Open location code
5HQGP5W4+27
Open­Street­Map ID
node 724157435
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1056899
Wiki­data ID
Q254480
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Zulu—“Sambava” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Sambava”
  • Amharic: “ሳምባቫ”
  • Arabic: “سامبافا”
  • Arabic: “محافظة سامبافا”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sambava”
  • Basque: “Sambava”
  • Bengali: “সাম্বাভা”
  • Catalan: “Sambava”
  • Cebuano: “Sambava”
  • Chinese: “桑巴瓦”
  • Chinese: “森巴瓦”
  • Croatian: “Sambava”
  • Danish: “Sambava”
  • Dutch: “Sambava”
  • Finnish: “Sambava”
  • French: “Sambava”
  • German: “Sambava”
  • Greek: “Σαμπάβα”
  • Hausa: “Sambava”
  • Hindi: “सम्बावा”
  • Hungarian: “Sambava”
  • Indonesian: “Sambava”
  • Italian: “Sambava”
  • Japanese: “サンバヴァ”
  • Japanese: “サンババ”
  • Javanese: “Sambava”
  • Kazakh: “Самбава”
  • Kirghiz: “Самбава”
  • Korean: “삼바바”
  • Lithuanian: “Sambava”
  • Malagasy: “Sambava”
  • Malay: “Sambava”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sambava”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sambava”
  • Oromo: “Sambava”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੰਬਾਵਾ”
  • Persian: “سامباوا (شهر)”
  • Persian: “سامباوا”
  • Persian: “سامبوا”
  • Polish: “Sambava”
  • Portuguese: “Sambava”
  • Pushto: “سمبوا”
  • Romanian: “Sambava”
  • Russian: “Самбава”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sambava”
  • Somali: “Sambava”
  • Spanish: “Sambava”
  • Swahili: “Sambava”
  • Swedish: “Sambava”
  • Tajik: “Самбава”
  • Tamil: “சம்பவா”
  • Tatar: “Самбава”
  • Turkish: “Sambava”
  • Ukrainian: “Самбава”
  • Urdu: “سامباوا”
  • Urdu: “سمبوا”
  • Uzbek: “Sambava”
  • Zulu: “Sambava”
  • “Sambava”

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