Masaya
Masaya is the capital city of Masaya Department in Nicaragua. It is situated approximately 14 km west of Granada and 31 km southeast of Managua. It is located just east of the Masaya Volcano, an active volcano from which the city takes its name.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 130,000 residents
- Description: urban settlement and municipal seat in Masaya Department, Nicaragua
- Also known as: “City of Masaya”, “Ciudad de Masaya”, “Masaya (city)”, and “Masaya, Masaya”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fortaleza El Coyotepe and Roberto Clemente Stadium (Masaya).
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Masaya and Nindirí.
Masaya
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Masaya is a small city in Nicaragua, midway between Managua and Granada. The town sits perilously close to the Volcan Masaya, an active volcano with constant plumes of sulfuric smoke. The volcano is the main feature of a national park.
Nindirí
Town
Nindirí is a town and a municipality in the Masaya department of Nicaragua. In 2022 the population was 61,816 in the municipality, and 29,566 in the town. Nindirí is situated 4 km northwest of Masaya.
Nandasmo
Town
Nandasmo is a municipality in the Masaya department of Nicaragua. Nandasmo is situated 6 km southwest of Masaya.
Masaya
- Category: big city
- Location: Masaya Department, Nicaragua, Central America, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Masaya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلدية ماسايا”
- Arabic: “ماسايا”
- Armenian: “Համայնք Մասայա”
- Armenian: “Մասայա”
- Asturian: “Ciudá de Masaya”
- Asturian: “Masaya”
- Aymara: “Marka Masaya”
- Aymara: “Masaya”
- Azerbaijani: “Masaya şəhəri”
- Balinese: “Kota Masaya”
- Basque: “Masaya”
- Bavarian: “Stod Masaya”
- Belarusian: “Масая”
- Belarusian: “Муниципалитет Масая”
- Bengali: “পৌরসভা মাসায়া”
- Bengali: “মাসায়া”
- Breton: “Kêr Masaya”
- Breton: “Masaya”
- Bulgarian: “Масая”
- Bulgarian: “Муниципалитет Масая”
- Catalan: “Ciutat de Masaya”
- Cebuano: “Ciudad de Masaya”
- Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Masaya”
- Cebuano: “Masaya (kapital sa departamento)”
- Cebuano: “Masaya (lungsod)”
- Cebuano: “Masaya”
- Chechen: “Масая”
- Chechen: “Муниципалитет Масая”
- Chinese: “Masaya”
- Chinese: “馬薩亞”
- Chinese: “馬薩亞市鎮”
- Chinese: “马萨亚”
- Chinese: “马萨亚市镇”
- Croatian: “Grad Masaya”
- Croatian: “Masaya”
- Czech: “Masaya”
- Czech: “Město Masaya”
- Danish: “Byen Masaya”
- Danish: “Masaya”
- Dutch: “Masaya”
- Dutch: “Stad Masaya”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلدية ماسايا”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماسايا”
- Esperanto: “Masaya”
- Esperanto: “Urbo Masaya”
- Estonian: “Masaya linn”
- Finnish: “Masaya (kaupunki)”
- Finnish: “Masaya”
- French: “Ciudad de Masaya”
- French: “Masaya (ville)”
- French: “Masaya”
- French: “Ville de Masaya”
- Galician: “Cidade de Masaya”
- Galician: “Masaya”
- Georgian: “მასაია”
- Georgian: “მუნიციპალიტეტი მასაია”
- German: “Ciudad de Masaya”
- German: “Masaya (Stadt)”
- German: “Masaya”
- German: “Stadt Masaya”
- Greek: “Μασάγια”
- Gujarati: “નગરપાલિકા માસાયા”
- Haitian: “Vil Masaya”
- Hebrew: “מסאיה”
- Hindi: “नगरपालिका मसाया”
- Hindi: “मसाया”
- Hungarian: “Masaya város”
- Indonesian: “Kota Masaya”
- Indonesian: “Masaya”
- Irish: “Ciudad de Masaya”
- Irish: “Masaya”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Masaya”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Town a Masaya”
- Japanese: “マサヤ”
- Japanese: “マサヤ自治体”
- Kannada: “ಪುರಸಭೆ ಮಸಾಯಾ”
- Kannada: “ಮಸಾಯಾ”
- Kirghiz: “Масая”
- Korean: “마사야 지방자치단체”
- Korean: “마사야”
- Ladino: “Masaya”
- Latvian: “Masaya pilsēta”
- Latvian: “Masaya”
- Lithuanian: “Masaja”
- Lithuanian: “Masaya”
- Luxembourgish: “Stad Masaya”
- Macedonian: “Масая”
- Macedonian: “Муниципалитет Масая”
- Malay: “Bandar Masaya”
- Maltese: “Belt Masaya”
- Maltese: “Masaya”
- Marathi: “नगरपालिका मसाया”
- Marathi: “मसाया”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ciudad de Masaya”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Masaya (Masaya)”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Masaya”
- Moksha: “Муниципалитет Масая”
- Moroccan Arabic: “بلدية ماسايا”
- Moroccan Arabic: “ماسايا”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Byen Masaya”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Masaya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Masaya”
- Ossetian: “Масая”
- Ossetian: “Муниципалитет Масая”
- Papiamento: “Masaya”
- Papiamento: “Siudat di Masaya”
- Persian: “بلدية ماسايا”
- Persian: “ماسايا”
- Piemontese: “Sità Masaya”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Masaya”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Taun Masaya”
- Polish: “Miasto Masaya”
- Portuguese: “Cidade de Masaya”
- Portuguese: “Masaya”
- Romanian: “Orașul Masaya”
- Russian: “Масая”
- Russian: “Муниципалитет Масая”
- Scots: “Masaya”
- Scots: “Toun o Masaya”
- Serbian: “Grad Masaya”
- Serbian: “Масая”
- Serbian: “Муниципалитет Масая”
- Sinhala: “නගර සභාව මසායා”
- Slovak: “Masaya”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Masaya”
- Spanish: “Masaya (ciudad)”
- Spanish: “Masaya”
- Swedish: “Ciudad de Masaya”
- Swedish: “Masaya (ort)”
- Swedish: “Masaya”
- Tamil: “மசாயா”
- Tatar: “Масая”
- Telugu: “మున్సిపాలిటీ మసాయా”
- Thai: “เทศบาล มาซายา”
- Thai: “มาซายา”
- Tibetan: “མ་ས་ཡ།”
- Tibetan: “མུ་ནི་སི་པལ་ལི་ཏི མ་ས་ཡ།”
- Turkish: “Masaya şehri”
- Turkish: “Masaya”
- Ukrainian: “Муниципалитет Масая”
- Urdu: “بلدية ماسايا”
- Urdu: “ماسايا”
- Uzbek: “Masaya shahri”
- Venetian: “Masaya”
- Venetian: “Sità de Masaya”
- Vietnamese: “Masaya”
- Vietnamese: “Thành phố Masaya”
- Waray (Philippines): “Masaya”
- Waray (Philippines): “Syudad han Masaya”
- Welsh: “Dinas Masaya”
- Welsh: “Masaya”
- Western Panjabi: “بلدية ماسايا”
- “Ciudad de Masaya”
- “Masaya”
- “Masaya (ciudad)”
- “Masaya altepetl (altepetl)”
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Notable Places Nearby
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