Monção
Monção, Maranhão is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil. The municipality contains a small part of the Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area, a 1,775,035.6-hectare sustainable use conservation unit created in 1991 that has been a Ramsar Site since 2000.- Type: Town with 27,800 residents
- Description: municipality of Maranhão state, Brazil
- Also known as: “Monção, Maranhão”
- Neighbors: Santa Inês
Monção
- Categories: municipality of Brazil and locality
- Location: Maranhão, Northeast, Brazil, South America
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Latitude
-3.4842° or 3° 29′ 3″ south
Longitude
-45.2515° or 45° 15′ 6″ west
Population
27,800
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Open location code
688PGP8X+89
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Monção” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منشو”
- Armenian: “Մոնսան”
- Basque: “Monção”
- Catalan: “Monção”
- Cebuano: “Monção”
- Chechen: “Монсан”
- Chinese: “Monção”
- Chinese: “蒙桑”
- Dutch: “Monção”
- French: “Monção”
- Georgian: “მონსანი”
- German: “Monção”
- Hungarian: “Monção”
- Irish: “Monção”
- Italian: “Monção”
- Kazakh: “Monsan”
- Kazakh: “Монсан”
- Kazakh: “مونسان”
- Malagasy: “Monção”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Monção”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Monção”
- Norwegian: “Monção”
- Polish: “Monção”
- Portuguese: “Monção-MA”
- Portuguese: “Monção”
- Romanian: “Monção, Maranhão”
- Romanian: “Moncao”
- Romanian: “Monção”
- Russian: “Монсан”
- Swedish: “Monção kommun, Brasilien”
- Swedish: “Monção”
- Tatar: “Монсан”
- Turkish: “Monção”
- Urdu: “مونساؤ، مارانیاو”
- Uzbek: “Monção”
- Vietnamese: “Monção, Maranhão”
- Vietnamese: “Monção”
- Volapük: “Monção”
- Waray (Philippines): “Monção, Maranhão”
- Waray (Philippines): “Monção”
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