Kangaba
Kangaba is a town, commune, and seat of the Kangaba Cercle in the Koulikoro Region of south-western Mali. Kangaba is believed to have been founded in 1050 by Mandinka tribesmen and was a vassal state of the Ghana Empire.Photo: David Sessoms, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: City with 17,200 residents
- Description: town and commune and seat of the Cercle of Kangaba in the Koulikoro Region of south-western Mali
- Also known as: “Kaba” and “Kangara”
Kangaba
Latitude
11.94183° or 11° 56′ 31″ northLongitude
-8.41425° or 8° 24′ 51″ westPopulation
17,200Elevation
343 metres (1,125 feet)Open location code
7C3HWHRP+P7OpenStreetMap ID
node 538454688OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2455735Wikidata ID
Q1031919
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Kangaba” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كانجابا”
- Arabic: “كانكابا”
- Asturian: “Kangaba”
- Belarusian: “Кангаба”
- Catalan: “Kangaba”
- Cebuano: “Kangaba (kapital sa sirkito sa Mali)”
- Cebuano: “Kangaba”
- Chinese: “康加巴”
- Dutch: “Kangaba”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كانجابا”
- Esperanto: “Kangaba”
- Finnish: “Kangaba”
- French: “Kangaba”
- German: “Kangaba”
- Japanese: “カンガバ”
- N'Ko: “ߞߊ߯ߓߊ߫”
- Polish: “Kangaba”
- Portuguese: “Cangaba”
- Portuguese: “Ka-ba”
- Portuguese: “Kangaba”
- Russian: “Кангаба”
- Spanish: “Kangaba”
- Swedish: “Kangaba”
- Turkish: “Kangaba”
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