Monjas
Monjas is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 85.5 km2. It is part of the Miahuatlán District in the south of the Sierra Sur Region. As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 2,104.- Type: Town with 672 residents
- Description: municipality in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico
- Also known as: “De Monjas”, “Monjas Municipality”, “Monjas, Oaxaca”, and “Santa Cruz Monjas”
Monjas
- Categories: municipality of Mexico and locality
- Location: Monjas, Oaxaca, Pacific Coast, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
16.3675° or 16° 22′ 3″ northLongitude
-96.63639° or 96° 38′ 11″ westPopulation
672Elevation
1,513 metres (4,964 feet)Open location code
76859997+2COpenStreetMap ID
node 458623215OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3517532Wikidata ID
Q3892970
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Monjas” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Monjas (udalerria)”
- Basque: “Monjas”
- Catalan: “Monjas”
- Cebuano: “Monjas”
- Dutch: “Monjas”
- Esperanto: “Monjas”
- French: “Monjas”
- Georgian: “მონხასი (ოახაკა)”
- Georgian: “მონხასი”
- Greek: “Δήμος Μόνχας”
- Greek: “Μόνχας”
- Scots: “Monjas, Oaxaca”
- Scots: “Monjas”
- Serbian: “Општина Монхас”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Monjas, Oaxaca”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Monjas”
- Spanish: “Monjas”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Monjas”
- Swedish: “Monjas”
- Turkish: “Monjas (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Monjas”
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