Masaya Department

Masaya, is a department in . It is the country's smallest department by area and has a population of 397,632. The capital is the city of .
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  • Type: department of Nicaragua with 398,000 residents
  • Description: department of Nicaragua
  • Also known as: “Departma Masaya”, “Masaja”, “Масайæ”, “მასაია”, “ماسایا”, “ماسایا ڈیپارٹمنٹ”, “مسايا”, “मसाया”, “মাসায়া”, “મસાયા”, “மசாயா”, “మసాయా”, “మసాయా రాష్ట్రభాగం”, “ಮಸಾಯಾ”, “මසායා”, “มาซายา”, “마사야”, “マサヤ”, “馬薩亞”, and “马萨亚”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Volcán Masaya.

Photo: Saraedum, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Masaya, also known historically by its aboriginal name…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nindirí and Ticuantepe.

Town
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is a town and a municipality in the Masaya department of . is situated 5 km east of Masaya Department.

Town
, is a town and a municipality in the… is situated 5 km northwest of Masaya Department.

Masaya Department

Latitude
12° north
Longitude
-86.1667° or 86° 10′ west
Population
398,000
Elevation
325 metres (1,066 feet)
Open location code
764M2R2M+28
Geo­Names ID
3617722
Wiki­data ID
Q570358
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Waray—“Masaya Department” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ማሳያ ዲፓርትመንት”
  • Arabic: “إدارة مسايا”
  • Asturian: “Departamentu de Masaya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Masaya Departamenti”
  • Basque: “Masayako departamendua”
  • Belarusian: “Дэпартамент Масая”
  • Belarusian: “Дэпартамэнт Масая”
  • Belarusian: “Масая”
  • Bengali: “মাসায়া বিভাগ”
  • Bulgarian: “Департамент Масая”
  • Bulgarian: “Масая”
  • Catalan: “Departament de Masaya”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento de Masaya”
  • Chinese: “馬薩亞省”
  • Chinese: “马萨亚省”
  • Czech: “Departement Masaya”
  • Czech: “Masaya”
  • Danish: “Masaya Department”
  • Danish: “Masaya-departementet”
  • Dutch: “Departement Masaya”
  • Dutch: “Masaya”
  • Esperanto: “departemento Masajo”
  • Esperanto: “Masajo”
  • Finnish: “Masaya”
  • Finnish: “Masayan departementti”
  • Finnish: “Masayan departmentti”
  • French: “département de Masaya”
  • French: “Département de Masaya”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Masaya”
  • Georgian: “მასაიას დეპარტამენტი”
  • Georgian: “მასაიის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Departamento Masaya”
  • Greek: “Μασάγια”
  • Greek: “Τμήμα Μασάγια”
  • Gujarati: “મસાયા વિભાગ”
  • Hausa: “Masaya Department”
  • Hindi: “मसाया विभाग”
  • Hindi: “मासाया विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Masaya megye”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Masaya”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Masaya”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Masaya”
  • Japanese: “マサヤ県”
  • Javanese: “Departemen Masaya”
  • Kannada: “ಮಸಾಯಾ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Масая департаменті”
  • Kirghiz: “Масая Департаменти”
  • Korean: “마사야주”
  • Ladino: “Departamento de Masaya”
  • Ladino: “Masaya”
  • Latvian: “Masajas departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Masajos departamentas”
  • Malay: “Jabatan Masaya”
  • Malay: “Pentadbiran Masaya”
  • Marathi: “मसाया विभाग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Masaya Koān”
  • Northern Frisian: “Masaya (Departement)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Masaya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Masaya-departementet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Masaya”
  • Norwegian: “Masaya”
  • Oromo: “Masaya Department”
  • Ossetian: “Департамент Масайæ”
  • Ossetian: “Масая”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਸਾਇਆ ਵਿਭਾਗ”
  • Persian: “بخش ماسایا”
  • Persian: “دپارتمان ماسایا”
  • Polish: “Departament Masaya”
  • Polish: “Masaya”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de Masaya”
  • Portuguese: “Masaia”
  • Portuguese: “Masaya”
  • Pushto: “ماسایا ډیپارتمنټ”
  • Quechua: “Masaya suyu”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Masaya”
  • Russian: “Департамент Масая”
  • Russian: “Масая”
  • Scots: “Masaya Depairtment”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Masaya (departman)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Masaya”
  • Sinhala: “මසයා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Sinhala: “මසායා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, නිකරගුවාව”
  • Sinhala: “මසායා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Slovenian: “Departamento de Masaya”
  • Somali: “Masaya Department”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Masaya”
  • Swahili: “Masaya Department”
  • Swedish: “Masaya-departementet”
  • Swedish: “Masaya”
  • Tajik: “Дипартаменти Масая”
  • Tamil: “மசாயா துறை”
  • Tatar: “Masaya Departamenti”
  • Telugu: “మసాయా డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดมาซายา”
  • Turkish: “Masaya Departmanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Департамент Масая”
  • Ukrainian: “Масая”
  • Urdu: “ماسایا محکمہ”
  • Uzbek: “Masaya Departamenti”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực hành chính Masaya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Masaya (departamento)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Masaya”
  • “Departamento de Masaya”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: La Sabanita and Nindirí (cabecera).

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Highlights: Volcán Santiago and Barrio Los Ortices.

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