Azua

Azua de Compostela, also known simply as Azua, is a city, municipality and capital of in the southern region of . Founded in 1504, Azua is one of the oldest European settlements in the Americas.
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  • City with 128,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 86 metres (282 feet)
  • Description: city in the Dominican Republic
  • Also known as
    “Azua, Dominican Republic”
    “Compostela de Azua”

Azua

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Latitude
18.4533° or 18° 27′ 12″ north
Longitude
-70.7324° or 70° 43′ 57″ west
UN/LOCODE
DO AZU
Open location code
77CFF739+82
Open­Street­Map ID
node 250651411
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3512208
Wiki­data ID
Q1836680

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Waray—“Azua” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “አዙዋ”
  • Arabic: “أزوا”
  • Arabic: “ازوا”
  • Asturian: “Azua”
  • Azerbaijani: “Azua”
  • Basque: “Azua de Compostela”
  • Bengali: “আজুয়া”
  • Bulgarian: “Асуа де Компостела”
  • Catalan: “Azua (República Dominicana)”
  • Catalan: “Azua”
  • Cebuano: “Azua (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Azua”
  • Chinese: “阿苏阿”
  • Chinese: “阿蘇阿”
  • Danish: “Azua”
  • Dutch: “Azua”
  • Finnish: “Azua de Compostela”
  • Finnish: “Azua”
  • French: “Azua de Compostela”
  • French: “Azua”
  • Galician: “Azua de Compostela”
  • German: “Azua de Compostela”
  • German: “Azua”
  • Greek: “Άσουα”
  • Gujarati: “અઝુઆ”
  • Hausa: “Azua”
  • Hindi: “अजुआ”
  • Hindi: “आस्वा”
  • Indonesian: “Azua, Republik Dominika”
  • Indonesian: “Azua”
  • Italian: “Azua de Compostela”
  • Japanese: “アスア (ドミニカ共和国)”
  • Japanese: “アスア”
  • Japanese: “アズア”
  • Javanese: “Azua”
  • Kannada: “ಅಜುವಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Асуа”
  • Kirghiz: “Асуа”
  • Korean: “아수아”
  • Latvian: “Asva”
  • Lithuanian: “Asua”
  • Malay: “Azua”
  • Marathi: “अझुआ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Azua de Compostela”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Azua”
  • Norwegian: “Azua”
  • Oromo: “Azua”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਜੁਆ”
  • Persian: “آزوا”
  • Persian: “ازوا”
  • Polish: “Azua”
  • Portuguese: “Azua de Compostela”
  • Portuguese: “Azua”
  • Pushto: “ازوا”
  • Russian: “Асуа-де-Компостела”
  • Russian: “Асуа”
  • Sinhala: “අසුවා”
  • Somali: “Azua”
  • Spanish: “Azua (República Dominicana)”
  • Spanish: “Azua”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Azua”
  • Swahili: “Azua”
  • Swedish: “Ázua de Compostela”
  • Tajik: “Асуа”
  • Tamil: “ஆஸுவா”
  • Tatar: “Azua”
  • Telugu: “అజుఆ”
  • Thai: “อาซัว”
  • Turkish: “Azua”
  • Ukrainian: “Асуа-де-Компостела”
  • Urdu: “آسوا”
  • Urdu: “ازوآ”
  • Uzbek: “Azua (shahar)”
  • Uzbek: “Azua”
  • Vietnamese: “Azua”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Azua de Compostela”

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