Balaka District
Balaka is a district in the Southern Region of Malawi. The capital is Balaka. Balaka District has about 438,000 residents.Balaka District
- District of Malawi with 438,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 655 metres (2,149 feet)
- Location
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Latitude
-15.0484° or 15° 2′ 54″ south
Longitude
35.0591° or 35° 3′ 33″ east
Open location code
5GPQX325+JJ
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Balaka District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة بالاكا”
- Azerbaijani: “Balaka dairəsi”
- Azerbaijani: “Balaka”
- Bengali: “বালাকা জেলা”
- Breton: “Balaka”
- Bulgarian: “Балака”
- Cebuano: “Balaka District”
- Cebuano: “Balaka”
- Chinese: “巴拉卡县”
- Chinese: “巴拉卡縣”
- Danish: “Balaka District”
- Dutch: “Balaka”
- Finnish: “Balakan piirikunta”
- French: “Balaka”
- French: “District de Balaka”
- Fulah: “Balaka Daande”
- Galician: “Distrito de Balaka”
- Georgian: “ბალაკის რაიონი”
- German: “Balaka”
- Greek: “Μπαλάκα”
- Gujarati: “બાલાકા જિલ્લો”
- Hausa: “Gundumar Balaka”
- Hindi: “बलाका जिला”
- Indonesian: “Balaka”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Balaka”
- Italian: “distretto di Balaka”
- Italian: “Distretto di Balaka”
- Japanese: “バラカ県”
- Kannada: “ಬಾಲಕ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
- Korean: “발라카현”
- Latvian: “Balakas distrikts”
- Lithuanian: “Balakos apskritis”
- Malay: “Daerah Balaka”
- Marathi: “बालाक जिल्हा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Balaka Koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Balaka”
- Norwegian: “Balaka”
- Nyanja: “Balaka”
- Persian: “بخش بالاکا”
- Polish: “Balaka”
- Polish: “Dystrykt Balaka”
- Portuguese: “Balaka”
- Pushto: “بالاکا”
- Romanian: “Districtul Balaka”
- Russian: “Балака”
- Serbian: “Балака”
- Sinhala: “බලකා දිස්ත්රික්කය, මලාවි”
- Sinhala: “බලකා දිස්ත්රික්කය”
- Slovenian: “distrikt Balaka”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Balaka”
- Swahili: “Wilaya ya Balaka”
- Swedish: “Balaka”
- Tamil: “பாலாக மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “బలాకా జిల్లా”
- Thai: “บาลากา”
- Tumbuka: “Boma la Balaka”
- Turkish: “Balaka”
- Ukrainian: “Балака”
- Ukrainian: “Район Балака”
- Urdu: “بالاکا ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Balaka”
- Zulu: “Balaka District”
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