Makokou
Makokou is the regional capital of the Ogooué-Ivindo Province of Gabon. The city lies on the Ivindo River and the N4 road, and it is near Ivindo National Park. It developed around iron ore mining.- Type: City with 24,800 residents
- Description: city
- Also known as: “Makokou Fortifié”
Makokou
- Categories: city in Gabon and locality
- Location: Ogooué-Ivindo Province, Gabon, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
0.56191° or 0° 33′ 43″ north
Longitude
12.85251° or 12° 51′ 9″ east
Population
24,800
Elevation
489 metres (1,604 feet)
IATA airport code
MKU
United Nations Location Code
GA MKU
Open location code
6FGJHV63+Q2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Makokou” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماكوكو”
- Belarusian: “Макаку”
- Belarusian: “Макоку”
- Bulgarian: “Макоку”
- Catalan: “Makokou”
- Cebuano: “Makokou”
- Chinese: “馬科庫”
- Chinese: “马科库”
- Croatian: “Makokou”
- Danish: “Makokou”
- Dutch: “Makokou”
- Finnish: “Makokou”
- French: “Makokou”
- German: “Makokou”
- Hebrew: “מאקוקו”
- Italian: “Makokou”
- Japanese: “マコクー”
- Korean: “마코쿠”
- Kotava: “Makokou”
- Lithuanian: “Makokas”
- Lithuanian: “Makoku”
- Moksha: “Макоку”
- Northern Frisian: “Makokou”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Makokou”
- Polish: “Makokou”
- Portuguese: “Makokou”
- Romanian: “Makokou”
- Russian: “Макоку”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Makokou”
- Silesian: “Makokou”
- Spanish: “Makokou”
- Swahili: “Makokou”
- Swedish: “Makokou”
- Tagalog: “Makokou”
- Ukrainian: “Макоку”
- Urdu: “ماکوکو”
- Vietnamese: “Makokou”
- Waray (Philippines): “Makokou”
- Zulu: “Makokou, Gabhoni”
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