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Amapa is in a state in the . It occupies the northernmost part of the country's Atlantic coast, bordering French Guiana and Suriname.
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is the capital of Amapá, and one of the most deserted state capitals of Brazil. The locals call it "the capital of the middle of the world", as the equator runs through the city. In 2020, it was home to 513,000 people.

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is a municipality in the north of the state of Amapá, . Its population is 27,906 and its area is 22,625 square kilometres. is also a major river in the same state, forming the international border with .

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is a port in Amapá, about 25 km southwest of central . Macapense nightlife comes this way, and it is also where the larger passenger boats depart for Amazonian destinations. 14.000 population is second Amapá…

Amapá

Latitude of center
1.3545° or 1° 21′ 16″ north
Longitude of center
-51.9162° or 51° 54′ 58″ west
Population
846,000
Elevation
142 metres (466 feet)
Abbreviation
“AP”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 539680936
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3407762
Wiki­data ID
Q40130
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Amapá” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Amapá”
  • Albanian: “Amapá”
  • Arabic: “أمابا”
  • Arabic: “امابا”
  • Armenian: “Ամապա”
  • Asturian: “Amapá”
  • Aymara: “Amapa Istadu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Amapa”
  • Basque: “Amapa”
  • Basque: “Amapá”
  • Belarusian: “Амапа”
  • Belarusian: “штат Амапа”
  • Bengali: “আমাপা”
  • Bishnupriya: “আমাপা”
  • Bosnian: “Amapá”
  • Breton: “Amapá”
  • Bulgarian: “Амапа”
  • Catalan: “Amapá”
  • Catalan: “Estat d’Amapá”
  • Cebuano: “Amapá (estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Amapá”
  • Chinese: “Amapá”
  • Chinese: “阿馬帕”
  • Chinese: “阿馬帕州”
  • Chinese: “阿马帕”
  • Chinese: “阿马帕州”
  • Cornish: “Amapá”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Amapa”
  • Croatian: “Amapá”
  • Czech: “Amapá”
  • Danish: “Amapá”
  • Dutch: “Amapá”
  • Esperanto: “Amapá”
  • Esperanto: “Amapao”
  • Estonian: “Amapá osariik”
  • Finnish: “Amapa”
  • Finnish: “Amapá”
  • French: “Amapa”
  • French: “Amapá”
  • French: “État d’Amapá”
  • Galician: “Amapá”
  • Georgian: “ამაპა”
  • German: “Amapa”
  • German: “Amapá”
  • German: “AP”
  • Greek: “Αμαπά”
  • Guarani: “Amapa”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Lanmanpa”
  • Gujarati: “અમાપા”
  • Hausa: “Amapá”
  • Hebrew: “אמאפה”
  • Hindi: “अमापा”
  • Hungarian: “Amapá”
  • Ido: “Amapá”
  • Indonesian: “Amapa”
  • Indonesian: “Amapá”
  • Interlingua: “Amapá”
  • Irish: “Amapá”
  • Italian: “Amapa”
  • Italian: “Amapá”
  • Italian: “Amapà”
  • Italian: “Guiana portoghese”
  • Japanese: “アマパー”
  • Japanese: “アマパー州”
  • Japanese: “アマパ州”
  • Kannada: “ಅಮಪಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Амапа”
  • Kirghiz: “Амапа (штат)”
  • Kirghiz: “Амапа”
  • Korean: “아마파주”
  • Ladino: “Amapá”
  • Latin: “civitas Amapaensis”
  • Latin: “Civitas Amapaensis”
  • Latvian: “Amapa”
  • Limburgan: “Amapá”
  • Lithuanian: “Amapa”
  • Macedonian: “Амапа”
  • Malagasy: “Amapá”
  • Malay: “Amapá”
  • Malayalam: “അമാപാ”
  • Marathi: “अमापा”
  • Mazanderani: “آماپا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Amapá”
  • Mirandese: “Ñamapá”
  • Northern Frisian: “Amapá”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Amapa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Amapá”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amapá”
  • Norwegian: “Amapá”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Amapá”
  • Ossetian: “Амапа”
  • Persian: “آماپا”
  • Persian: “اماپا”
  • Piemontese: “Amapá”
  • Piemontese: “Amapà”
  • Polish: “Amapa”
  • Polish: “Amapá”
  • Portuguese: “Amapá”
  • Portuguese: “AP”
  • Portuguese: “BR-AP”
  • Portuguese: “Estado do Amapá”
  • Quechua: “Amapá suyu”
  • Romanian: “Amapa”
  • Romanian: “Amapá”
  • Russian: “Амапа”
  • Scots: “Amapá”
  • Serbian: “Амапа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Amapa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Amapá”
  • Sinhala: “අමපා ප්‍රාන්තය, බ්‍රසීලය”
  • Sinhala: “අමපා”
  • Slovak: “Amapá”
  • Slovenian: “Amapá”
  • Slovenian: “AP”
  • Spanish: “Amapa”
  • Spanish: “Amapá”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Amapa”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Amapá”
  • Spanish: “Guayana Brasilena”
  • Spanish: “Guayana Brasileña”
  • Swahili: “Amapá”
  • Swedish: “Amapa”
  • Swedish: “Amapá”
  • Tajik: “Амапа”
  • Tamil: “ஆமப்பா”
  • Tatar: “Амапа”
  • Telugu: “అమాపా”
  • Tetum: “Amapá”
  • Thai: “รัฐอามาปา”
  • Thai: “อามาปา”
  • Turkish: “Amapá (eyalet)”
  • Turkish: “Amapá eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Amapa”
  • Turkish: “Amapá”
  • Turkish: “AP”
  • Turkish: “BR- AP”
  • Turkish: “BR-AP”
  • Turkish: “Estado do Amapá”
  • Ukrainian: “Амапа”
  • Urdu: “اماپا”
  • Uzbek: “Amapá”
  • Venetian: “Amapá”
  • Vietnamese: “Amapá”
  • Volapük: “Amapá”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Amapá”
  • Welsh: “Amapá”
  • Western Panjabi: “اماپا”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿马帕州”
  • Yoruba: “Amapá”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿馬帕州”
  • “Amapá”
  • “AP”
  • “BR-AP”
  • “ma Amapa”
  • “ma Amapá”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Amapá”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.