Central America
Nicaragua
Managua Department

Managua

Managua is a locality in , and has about 973,000 residents.
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  • Type: Locality with 973,000 residents
  • Description: Large urban area on Lake Managua, part of the Municipality of Managua, Nicaragua.
  • Also known as: “City of Managua (City)”, “Managua (City)”, “Mānāhuac”, “Santiago de Managua”, and “馬拿瓜”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Nacional Soberanía and Nicaragua National Football Stadium.

Stadium
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is located in , . It has a capacity of 15,000 seated spectators. The stadium was built in 2017 as the Estadio Nacional Dennis Martínez, named after former Major League Baseball player Dennis Martínez…

Stadium
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The in , , is home to the Nicaragua national football team. The official ribbon-cutting ceremony, attended by FIFA president Sepp Blatter, occurred on April 14, 2011.

Church
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The , known as the Catedral de Santiago in Spanish, is a cathedral in , . The Cathedral was designed by Belgian architects.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Managua and La Chureca.

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is the capital and largest city of . A city that saw the death of Sandino, the rise of the Somozas, and their fall from power at the hand of the Sandinistas, is full of history and the closest thing to a metropolis Nicaragua has.

Neighborhood
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was the municipal domestic and industrial waste-disposal site in Managua, Nicaragua. It was the largest open-air landfill in , covering 7 km2 in the north-western corner of Managua. is situated 7 km northwest of Managua.

Managua

Latitude
12.1328° or 12° 7′ 58″ north
Longitude
-86.2504° or 86° 15′ 1″ west
Population
973,000
Elevation
108 metres (354 feet)
IATA airport code
MGA
United Nations Location Code
NI MGA
Open location code
764M4PMX+4R
Geo­Names ID
3617763
Wiki­data ID
Q131546626
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Managua” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Managua (City)”
  • Afrikaans: “Managua (City)”
  • Albanian: “Managua (City)”
  • Amharic: “Managua (City)”
  • Amharic: “ማናጓ”
  • Arabic: “ماناغوا (مدينة)”
  • Arabic: “ماناغوا”
  • Aragonese: “Managua (City)”
  • Armenian: “Մանագուա (քաղաք)”
  • Armenian: “Մանագուա”
  • Asturian: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Asturian: “Managua (City)”
  • Asturian: “Managua”
  • Aymara: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Aymara: “Managua (City)”
  • Aymara: “Manawa”
  • Azerbaijani: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Managua (City)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Manaqua”
  • Balinese: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Balinese: “Managua (City)”
  • Bashkir: “Managua (City)”
  • Basque: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Basque: “Managua (City)”
  • Basque: “Managua”
  • Bavarian: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Bavarian: “Managua (City)”
  • Belarusian: “Манагуа (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Манагуа”
  • Bengali: “মানাগুয়া (শহর)”
  • Bengali: “মানাগুয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Grad Managua (City)”
  • Bosnian: “Managua (City)”
  • Bosnian: “Managua”
  • Breton: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Breton: “Managua (City)”
  • Breton: “Managua”
  • Bulgarian: “Манагуа (град)”
  • Bulgarian: “Манагуа”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat de Managua (City)”
  • Catalan: “Managua (City)”
  • Catalan: “Managua”
  • Cebuano: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Cebuano: “Managua (City)”
  • Cebuano: “Managua”
  • Chechen: “Managua (City)”
  • Chechen: “Манагуа”
  • Chinese: “馬納瓜”
  • Chinese: “馬那瓜（城市）”
  • Chinese: “馬那瓜”
  • Chinese: “马那瓜 (城市)”
  • Chinese: “马那瓜（城市）”
  • Chinese: “马那瓜”
  • Chinese: “马那瓜市”
  • Croatian: “Grad Managua (City)”
  • Croatian: “Managua (City)”
  • Croatian: “Managua”
  • Czech: “Managua (City)”
  • Czech: “Managua”
  • Czech: “Město Managua (City)”
  • Danish: “Byen Managua (City)”
  • Danish: “Managua (City)”
  • Danish: “Managua”
  • Dutch: “Managua (City)”
  • Dutch: “Managua”
  • Dutch: “Stad Managua (City)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماناغوا (مدينة)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماناغوا”
  • Esperanto: “Managua (City)”
  • Esperanto: “Managua”
  • Esperanto: “Managvo”
  • Esperanto: “Urbo Managua (City)”
  • Estonian: “Managua (City) linn”
  • Estonian: “Managua (City)”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Managua (City)”
  • Finnish: “Managua (City) (kaupunki)”
  • Finnish: “Managua (City)”
  • Finnish: “Managua”
  • French: “Managua (City)”
  • French: “Managua”
  • French: “Ville de Managua (City)”
  • Galician: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Galician: “Managua (City)”
  • Galician: “Managua”
  • Georgian: “მანაგუა (ქალაქი)”
  • Georgian: “მანაგუა”
  • German: “Managua (City)”
  • German: “Managua”
  • German: “Stadt Managua (City)”
  • Greek: “Μανάγκουα (πόλη)”
  • Greek: “Μανάγκουα”
  • Greek: “Μανάγουα”
  • Gujarati: “મનાગુઆ (શહેર)”
  • Gujarati: “મનાગુઆ શહેર”
  • Gujarati: “મનાગુઆ”
  • Haitian: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Haitian: “Managoua”
  • Haitian: “Managua (City)”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Managua (City)”
  • Hausa: “Managua (City)”
  • Hebrew: “מנגואה (עיר)”
  • Hebrew: “מנגואה”
  • Hindi: “मनागुआ (नगर)”
  • Hindi: “मानागुआ शहर”
  • Hindi: “मानागुआ”
  • Hungarian: “Managua (City) város”
  • Hungarian: “Managua (City)”
  • Hungarian: “Managua”
  • Icelandic: “Managua (City)”
  • Icelandic: “Managva”
  • Ido: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Ido: “Managua (City)”
  • Ido: “Managua”
  • Inari Sami: “Managua (City)”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Managua (City)”
  • Indonesian: “Managua (City)”
  • Indonesian: “Managua”
  • Interlingua: “Managua (City)”
  • Interlingue: “Managua (City)”
  • Irish: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Irish: “Managua (City)”
  • Irish: “Managua”
  • Italian: “Città di Managua (City)”
  • Italian: “Managua (City)”
  • Italian: “Managua”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Managua (City)”
  • Japanese: “マナグア（都市）”
  • Japanese: “マナグア”
  • Kannada: “Managua (ನಗರ)”
  • Kannada: “Managua”
  • Kannada: “ಮನಾಗುವಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Managua (City)”
  • Kazakh: “Манагуа (қала)”
  • Kikuyu: “Managua (City)”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Managua (City)”
  • Kirghiz: “Managua (City)”
  • Kirghiz: “Манагуа”
  • Kongo: “Managua (City)”
  • Korean: “마나과(도시)”
  • Korean: “마나과”
  • Kotava: “Managua (City)”
  • Ladino: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Ladino: “Managua (City)”
  • Ladino: “Managua”
  • Latin: “Managua (City)”
  • Latvian: “Managua (City) pilsēta”
  • Latvian: “Managua (City)”
  • Latvian: “Managua”
  • Latvian: “Managva”
  • Ligurian: “Managua (City)”
  • Lithuanian: “Managua (City) miestas”
  • Lithuanian: “Managua (City)”
  • Lithuanian: “Managua”
  • Lithuanian: “Managva”
  • Livvi: “Managua (City)”
  • Lombard: “Managua (City)”
  • Luxembourgish: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Luxembourgish: “Managua (City)”
  • Luxembourgish: “Managua”
  • Macedonian: “Манагва”
  • Macedonian: “Манагуа (град)”
  • Macedonian: “Манагуа”
  • Malay: “Bandar Managua (City)”
  • Malay: “Managua (City)”
  • Malay: “Managua”
  • Malayalam: “Managua (നഗരം)”
  • Malayalam: “Managua”
  • Maltese: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Maltese: “Managua (City)”
  • Maltese: “Managua”
  • Marathi: “Managua (City)”
  • Marathi: “मानागुआ”
  • Marathi: “मानाग्वा”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Managua (City)”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Managua (City)”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “馬那瓜”
  • Minangkabau: “Managua (City)”
  • Mingrelian: “Managua (City)”
  • Mirandese: “Managua (City)”
  • Moksha: “Managua (City)”
  • Moksha: “Манагуа”
  • Mongolian: “Манагуа (хот)”
  • Mongolian: “Манагуа”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ماناغوا (مدينة)”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ماناغوا”
  • Navajo: “Managua (City)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Managua (City)”
  • Northern Sami: “Managua (City)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Managua (City)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Managua”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Managua (City)”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Managua”
  • Norwegian: “Managua”
  • Novial: “Managua (City)”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Managua (City)”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Managua”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Managua (City)”
  • Ossetian: “Managua (City)”
  • Ossetian: “Managua”
  • Ossetian: “Манагуæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਨਾਗੁਆ (ਸ਼ਹਿਰ)”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਨਾਗੁਆ”
  • Papiamento: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Papiamento: “Managua (City)”
  • Persian: “Managua”
  • Persian: “ماناگوآ”
  • Persian: “ماناگوا (شهر)”
  • Piemontese: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Piemontese: “Managua (City)”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Managua (City)”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Managua”
  • Polish: “Managua (City)”
  • Polish: “Managua”
  • Polish: “Miasto Managua (City)”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Managua (City)”
  • Portuguese: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Portuguese: “Managua (City)”
  • Portuguese: “Managua”
  • Portuguese: “Manágua”
  • Pushto: “ماناګوا”
  • Quechua: “Managua (City)”
  • Romanian: “Managua (City)”
  • Romanian: “Managua”
  • Romanian: “Orașul Managua (City)”
  • Russian: “Манагуа (город)”
  • Russian: “Манагуа”
  • Sakizaya: “Managua (City)”
  • Sardinian: “Managua (City)”
  • Scots: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Scots: “Managua (City)”
  • Scots: “Managua”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Managua (City)”
  • Serbian: “Managua (City)”
  • Serbian: “Managua”
  • Serbian: “Манагва”
  • Serbian: “Манагуа (град)”
  • Serbian: “Манагуа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Managua (City)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Managua”
  • Shona: “Managua (City)”
  • Silesian: “Managua (City)”
  • Sindhi: “Managua (City)”
  • Sinhala: “Managua (City)”
  • Sinhala: “Managua”
  • Skolt Sami: “Managua (City)”
  • Slovak: “Managua (City)”
  • Slovak: “Managua”
  • Slovak: “Mesto Managua (City)”
  • Slovenian: “Managua (City)”
  • Slovenian: “Managua”
  • Slovenian: “Mesto Managua (City)”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Managua (City)”
  • Spanish: “Managua (City)”
  • Spanish: “Managua”
  • Swahili: “Managua (City)”
  • Swedish: “Managua (City)”
  • Swedish: “Managua”
  • Swedish: “Staden Managua (City)”
  • Swiss German: “Managua (City)”
  • Tagalog: “Managua (City)”
  • Tajik: “Managua (City)”
  • Tajik: “Манагуа (шаҳр)”
  • Talysh: “Managua (City)”
  • Tamil: “மனாகுவா”
  • Tamil: “மானாகுவா (நகரம்)”
  • Tamil: “மானாகுவா”
  • Tatar: “Манагуа (шәһәр)”
  • Tatar: “Манагуа”
  • Telugu: “మనాగువా (నగరం)”
  • Telugu: “మనాగ్వా”
  • Thai: “มานากัว (เมือง)”
  • Thai: “มานากัว”
  • Tibetan: “མ་ན་ག་ཝ (གྲོང་ཁྱེར)”
  • Tibetan: “མ་ན་ག་ཝ”
  • Tibetan: “མ་ན་གུ་འ།”
  • Turkish: “Managua (City) şehri”
  • Turkish: “Managua (City)”
  • Turkish: “Managua”
  • Turkmen: “Managua (City)”
  • Udmurt: “Managua (City)”
  • Uighur: “Managua (City)”
  • Uighur: “ماناگۇئا”
  • Ukrainian: “Манагуа (місто)”
  • Ukrainian: “Манагуа”
  • Urdu: “ماناگوا (شہر)”
  • Urdu: “ماناگوا”
  • Uzbek: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Uzbek: “Managua (City)”
  • Uzbek: “Managua”
  • Venetian: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Venetian: “Managua (City)”
  • Venetian: “Managua”
  • Veps: “Managua (City)”
  • Vietnamese: “Managua (City)”
  • Vietnamese: “Managua”
  • Waray (Philippines): “City of Managua (City)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Managua (City)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Managua”
  • Welsh: “City of Managua (City)”
  • Welsh: “Managua (City)”
  • Welsh: “Managua”
  • Western Frisian: “Managua (City)”
  • Western Frisian: “Managûa”
  • Western Panjabi: “Managua (City)”
  • Wu Chinese: “Managua (City)”
  • Yakut: “Манагуа (куорат)”
  • Yakut: “Манагуа”
  • Yiddish: “מאנגווא (שטאָט)”
  • Yoruba: “Managua (City)”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬那瓜（城市）”
  • Zulu: “Managua (City)”
  • “City of Managua (City)”
  • “Managua”
  • “Managua (City)”

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