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Chinandega Department

Chinandega is a department in , located on the border with . It covers an area of 4,822 km2 and has a population of 441,897. The indigenous inhabitants of Chinandega are the Chorotegas and the Nahuas, and was the location of the pre-Columbian Nahua kingdom of Teswatlan.
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  • Type: department of Nicaragua with 442,000 residents
  • Description: department in northwestern Nicaragua
  • Also known as: “Chinandega” and “Tlālxeliuhcāyōtl Chināntēcapan”

Chinandega Department

Latitude
12.8333° or 12° 50′ north
Longitude
-87.0833° or 87° 5′ west
Population
442,000
Elevation
51 metres (167 feet)
Open location code
764JRWM8+8M
Geo­Names ID
3620380
Wiki­data ID
Q644024
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Chinandega Department” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إدارة تشينانديجا”
  • Arabic: “إدارة تشينانديغا”
  • Arabic: “تشينانديغا”
  • Asturian: “Chinandega”
  • Asturian: “Departamentu de Chinandega”
  • Basque: “Chinandega departamendua”
  • Basque: “Chinandega”
  • Basque: “Chinandegako departamendua”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Чынандэга”
  • Belarusian: “Дэпартамент Чынандэга”
  • Belarusian: “Чынандэга”
  • Bengali: “কিনান্ডেগা বিভাগ”
  • Bengali: “চিনানদেগা বিভাগ”
  • Bengali: “চিনানদেগা”
  • Bosnian: “Chinandega”
  • Bosnian: “Departman Chinandega”
  • Breton: “Chinandega”
  • Breton: “Departamant Chinandega”
  • Bulgarian: “Департамент Чинандега”
  • Bulgarian: “Чинандега”
  • Catalan: “Chinandega”
  • Catalan: “Departament de Chinandega”
  • Cebuano: “Chinandega”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento de Chinandega”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento sa Chinandega”
  • Chechen: “Чинандега департамент”
  • Chechen: “Чинандега”
  • Chinese: “Chinandega Koān”
  • Chinese: “奇南德加”
  • Chinese: “奇南德加省”
  • Czech: “Chinandega”
  • Czech: “Departement Chinandega”
  • Danish: “Chinandega Department”
  • Danish: “Chinandega-departementet”
  • Danish: “Chinandega”
  • Dutch: “Chinandega”
  • Dutch: “departement Chinandega”
  • Esperanto: “Chinandega”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉinandego”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Chinandega”
  • Estonian: “Chinandega departemang”
  • Estonian: “Chinandega”
  • Finnish: “Chinandega”
  • Finnish: “Chinandegan departementti”
  • French: “Chinandega”
  • French: “département de Chinandega”
  • French: “Département de Chinandega”
  • Galician: “Chinandega”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Chinandega”
  • Georgian: “ჩინანდეგა”
  • Georgian: “ჩინანდეგას დეპარტამენტი”
  • Georgian: “ჩინანდეგის დეპარტამენტი”
  • Georgian: “ხინოტეგას დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Chinandega”
  • German: “Departamento Chinandega”
  • Greek: “Διαμέρισμα Τσιναντέγα”
  • Greek: “Διαμέρισμα Τσιναντένγκα”
  • Greek: “Τσιναντέγα”
  • Gujarati: “ચિનાનદેગા વિભાગ”
  • Gujarati: “ચિનાનદેગા”
  • Gujarati: “ચિનાન્દેગા વિભાગ”
  • Haitian: “Chinandega”
  • Haitian: “Depatman Chinandega”
  • Hindi: “किनान्देगा विभाग”
  • Hindi: “चिनानडेगा विभाग”
  • Hindi: “चिनानडेगा”
  • Hungarian: “Chinandega megye”
  • Hungarian: “Chinandega”
  • Indonesian: “Chinandega”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Chinandega”
  • Italian: “Chinandega”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Chinandega”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Chinandega”
  • Japanese: “チナンデガ”
  • Japanese: “チナンデガ県”
  • Kannada: “ಚಿನಾಂಡಗಾ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Kannada: “ಚಿನಾಂಡೆಗಾ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Kannada: “ಚಿನಾಂಡೆಗಾ”
  • Korean: “치난데가”
  • Korean: “치난데가주”
  • Ladino: “Chinandega”
  • Ladino: “Departamento de Chinandega”
  • Latvian: “Chinandega departaments”
  • Latvian: “Chinandega”
  • Latvian: “Činandegas departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Chinandega”
  • Lithuanian: “Chinandegos departamentas”
  • Lithuanian: “Činandegos departamentas”
  • Macedonian: “Департман Чинандега”
  • Macedonian: “Чинандега”
  • Malay: “Chinandega”
  • Malay: “Jabatan Chinandega”
  • Malay: “Pentadbiran Chinandega”
  • Marathi: “चायीनानदेगा विभाग”
  • Marathi: “चिनानडेगा विभाग”
  • Marathi: “चिनानडेगा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chinandega Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “奇南德加”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “奇南德加省”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chinandega-Departement”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chinandega”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chinandega-departementet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chinandega”
  • Norwegian: “Chinandega”
  • Ossetian: “Чинандега департамент”
  • Ossetian: “Чинандега”
  • Panjabi: “ਚਿਨਾਂਦੇਗਾ ਵਿਭਾਗ”
  • Panjabi: “ਚਿਨਾਂਦੇਗਾ”
  • Persian: “چیناندگا”
  • Persian: “دپارتمان چیناندگا”
  • Piemontese: “Chinandega”
  • Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd Chinandega”
  • Polish: “Chinandega”
  • Polish: “Departament Chinandega”
  • Portuguese: “Chinandega”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de Chinandega”
  • Quechua: “Chinandega suyu”
  • Quechua: “Chinandega”
  • Romanian: “Chinandega”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Chinandega”
  • Russian: “Департамент Чинандега”
  • Russian: “Чинандега”
  • Scots: “Chinandega Depairtment”
  • Scots: “Chinandega Department”
  • Scots: “Chinandega”
  • Serbian: “Департман Чинандега”
  • Serbian: “Чинандега”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chinandega”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Departman Chinandega”
  • Sinhala: “චයිනන්දෙගා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Sinhala: “චිනන්දෙගා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, නිකරගුවාව”
  • Sinhala: “චිනාන්දෙගා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Sinhala: “චිනාන්දෙගා”
  • Spanish: “Chinandega”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Chinandega”
  • Swedish: “Chinandega-departementet”
  • Swedish: “Chinandega”
  • Tamil: “சினான்டேகா துறை”
  • Tamil: “சினான்டேகா”
  • Tamil: “சீனந்தகா துறை”
  • Telugu: “చినాండెగా శాఖ”
  • Telugu: “చినాండెగా”
  • Telugu: “చైనాండేగా డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Telugu: “చైనాండేగా విభాగం”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดชินันเดกา”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดชีนานเดกา”
  • Thai: “ชีนานเดกา”
  • Turkish: “Chinandega Departmanı”
  • Turkish: “Chinandega İli”
  • Turkish: “Chinandega”
  • Ukrainian: “Департамент Чинандега”
  • Ukrainian: “Чинандега”
  • Urdu: “چیناندیگا ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Urdu: “چیناندیگا محکمہ”
  • Urdu: “چیناندیگا”
  • Vietnamese: “Chinandega”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu hành chính Chinandega”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Chinandega”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chinandega”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Departamento han Chinandega”
  • Welsh: “Adran Chinandega”
  • Western Panjabi: “چیناندیگا ضلع”
  • Western Panjabi: “چیناندیگا”
  • Wu Chinese: “奇南德加”
  • Wu Chinese: “奇南德加省”
  • “Chinandega”
  • “Chinandega Department”
  • “Departamento de Chinandega”

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