Moanda

Moanda is one of the largest towns in , lying on the N3 road in Haut Ogooué. It is also one of the most important manganese mining towns in the world, under the auspices of the Compagnie minière de l'Ogooué, which began mining in 1957.
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  • Type: City with 39,300 residents
  • Description: human settlement
  • Also known as: “Moanda, Gabon”, “Moanga”, and “Mouenda”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stade Henri Sylvoz and Moanda Airport.

Stadium
The is a stadium primarily used for football matches in Moanda, . It is the home of the Gabonese team AS Mangasport. The stadium has a seating capacity of 4,000.

Aerodrome
is an serving Moanda, a town in the in . The runway lies to the northeast of the town. The airport was relocated in December 2010, after two and a half years of construction work, due to the discovery of manganese deposits underneath the old runway.

Moanda

Latitude
-1.5548° or 1° 33′ 17″ south
Longitude
13.2219° or 13° 13′ 19″ east
Population
39,300
Elevation
416 metres (1,365 feet)
IATA airport code
MFF
United Nations Location Code
GA MFF
Open location code
6FCMC6WC+3Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2178090546
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2398269
Wiki­data ID
Q1015100
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Moanda” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مواندا”
  • Asturian: “Moanda”
  • Belarusian: “Маанда (Габон)”
  • Belarusian: “Маанда”
  • Bulgarian: “Моанда”
  • Catalan: “Moanda”
  • Cebuano: “Moanda”
  • Chinese: “莫安达”
  • Chinese: “莫安達”
  • Croatian: “Moanda”
  • Czech: “Moanda”
  • Danish: “Moanda”
  • Dutch: “Moanda”
  • Dutch: “Mouanda”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مواندا”
  • Finnish: “Moanda”
  • French: “Moanda”
  • Georgian: “მოანდა”
  • German: “Moanda”
  • German: “Mouanda”
  • Hebrew: “מונדה”
  • Irish: “Moanda”
  • Italian: “Moanda”
  • Japanese: “モアンダ”
  • Kongo: “Muanda”
  • Korean: “모안다”
  • Kotava: “Moanda”
  • Lithuanian: “Moanda”
  • Polish: “Moanda”
  • Portuguese: “Moanda”
  • Romanian: “Moanda”
  • Russian: “Моанда”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Moanda (Gabon)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Moanda”
  • Silesian: “Moanda”
  • Spanish: “Moanda”
  • Swahili: “Moanda”
  • Swedish: “Moanda”
  • Thai: “มวนดา”
  • Thai: “มวานดา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Moanda”
  • Turkish: “Moanda”
  • Ukrainian: “Моанда”
  • Urdu: “مواندا، گیبون”
  • Uzbek: “Moanda”
  • Uzbek: “Mvanda”
  • Zulu: “Moanda, Gabhoni”
  • Zulu: “Moanda”

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