Brazil
Northeast
Maranhão

Monção

Monção, Maranhão is a municipality in the state of in the of . 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.
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  • Type: Town with 27,800 residents
  • Description: municipality of Maranhão state, Brazil
  • Also known as: “Monção, Maranhão”
  • Neighbors:

Monção

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
node 415524189
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6319011
Wiki­data ID
Q2103583
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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”
  • Uzbek: “Monção”
  • Vietnamese: “Monção, Maranhão”
  • Vietnamese: “Monção”
  • Volapük: “Monção”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Monção, Maranhão”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Monção”

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