Banana
Banana is a small seaport in the Kongo Central province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Atlantic coast. The port is situated in Banana Creek, an inlet about 1 km wide on the north bank of the Congo River's mouth, separated from the ocean by a spit of land 3 km long and 100 to 400 m wide.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: small seaport in Bas-Congo province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Also known as: “Banana, Democratic Republic of the Congo”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Moanda.
Moanda
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Moanda or Muanda is a town and territory lying on the Atlantic Ocean coast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the mouth of the Congo River. It is situated in Kongo Central Province, and has a population of 90,812 as of 2012. Moanda is situated 9 km north of Banana.
Banana
- Categories: city, port city, and locality
- Location: Moanda, Bas-Congo Province, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-6.00627° or 6° 0′ 23″ southLongitude
12.40028° or 12° 24′ 1″ eastElevation
5 metres (16 feet)United Nations Location Code
CD BNWOpen location code
6F5JXCV2+F4OpenStreetMap ID
node 6315887155OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2317418Wikidata ID
Q806082
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Zulu—“Banana” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Banana”
- Catalan: “Banana”
- Cebuano: “Banana”
- Chinese: “巴纳纳”
- Dutch: “Banana”
- Finnish: “Banana (Kongo)”
- Finnish: “Banana”
- French: “Banana (RDC)”
- French: “Banana (Republique democratique du Congo)”
- French: “Banana (république démocratique du congo)”
- French: “Banana (République Démocratique Du Congo)”
- French: “Banana”
- French: “Banane”
- Fulah: “Banana”
- Georgian: “ბანანა”
- German: “Banana”
- Italian: “Banana (città)”
- Italian: “Banana”
- Japanese: “バナナ”
- Kongo: “Banana”
- Lingala: “Banána”
- Lithuanian: “Banana”
- Mingrelian: “ბანანა”
- Polish: “Banana”
- Portuguese: “Banana”
- Portuguese: “Porto de Banana”
- Romanian: “Banana, republica democrată congo”
- Romanian: “Banana, Republica Democrată Congo”
- Russian: “Банана”
- Serbian: “Банана”
- Spanish: “Banana”
- Swahili: “Banana”
- Swedish: “Banana”
- Tagalog: “Banana, Demokratikong Republika ng Congo”
- Ukrainian: “Банана”
- Zulu: “Banana, Khongo-Kinshasa”
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