Makoua
Makoua is a town in the Republic of the Congo, lying on the equator at the southern edge of the rainforest, north of Owando. It is the seat of the Makoua District in the Cuvette Department. It is home to an airport.
- Type: Town with 20,000 residents
- Description: town in Cuvette Department, Republic of the Congo
- Also known as: “Makoue”
Makoua
- Category: locality
- Location: Cuvette Department, Republic of the Congo, Central Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-0.00656° or 0° 0′ 24″ south
Longitude
15.61816° or 15° 37′ 5″ east
Population
20,000
Elevation
324 metres (1,063 feet)
IATA airport code
MKJ
United Nations Location Code
CG MKJ
Open location code
6FFQXJV9+97
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Makoua” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماكوا”
- Asturian: “Makoua”
- Cebuano: “Makoua”
- Chinese: “馬夸”
- Dutch: “Makoua”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماكوا”
- French: “Makoua”
- German: “Makoua”
- Italian: “Makoua”
- Japanese: “マクア”
- Kongo: “Makoua mbanza”
- Kongo: “Makoua”
- Lingala: “Makua”
- Malagasy: “Makoua (tanàna)”
- Malagasy: “Makoua”
- Polish: “Makoua”
- Portuguese: “Makoua”
- Romanian: “Makoua”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Makoua”
- Silesian: “Makoua”
- Spanish: “Makoua”
- Swahili: “Makoua”
- Swedish: “Makoua”
- Urdu: “ماکؤا”
- Zulu: “Makoua”
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