Brazil
Northeast
Maranhão

Balsas

Balsas is a city in the state of , northeast Brazil. It is located in southern Maranhão, 800 km from the capital of the state, .
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  • Type: City with 102,000 residents
  • Description: municipality of Maranhão state, Brazil
  • Also known as: “Balsas, Maranhão”

Balsas

Latitude
-7.5321° or 7° 31′ 56″ south
Longitude
-46.0372° or 46° 2′ 14″ west
Population
102,000
Elevation
356 metres (1,168 feet)
Open location code
684MFX97+44
Open­Street­Map ID
node 415520739
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6319653
Wiki­data ID
Q1813001
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Waray—“Balsas” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Բալսաս”
  • Basque: “Balsas”
  • Bishnupriya: “বালসাস”
  • Catalan: “Balsas”
  • Cebuano: “Balsas”
  • Chechen: “Балсас”
  • Chinese: “Balsas”
  • Chinese: “巴尔萨斯”
  • Dutch: “Balsas”
  • Esperanto: “Balsas”
  • French: “Balsas”
  • Georgian: “ბალსასი”
  • German: “Balsas”
  • German: “Município de Balsas”
  • Hebrew: “באלסס”
  • Hungarian: “Balsas”
  • Irish: “Balsas”
  • Italian: “Balsas”
  • Japanese: “バルサス”
  • Kazakh: “Balsas”
  • Kazakh: “Балсас”
  • Kazakh: “بالساس”
  • Mazanderani: “بالساس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Balsas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Balsas”
  • Norwegian: “Balsas”
  • Polish: “Balsas”
  • Portuguese: “Balsas - MA”
  • Portuguese: “Balsas”
  • Romanian: “Balsas, Maranhão”
  • Romanian: “Balsas”
  • Russian: “Балсас”
  • Slovak: “Balsas”
  • Spanish: “Balsas”
  • Swedish: “Balsas”
  • Tatar: “Балсас”
  • Tetum: “Balsas”
  • Turkish: “Balsas”
  • Ukrainian: “Балсас”
  • Venetian: “Balsas”
  • Vietnamese: “Balsas”
  • Volapük: “Balsas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Balsas, Maranhão”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Balsas”

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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 Wikipedia page “Balsas”. Photo: Otávio Nogueira, CC BY 2.0.