Blantyre

Blantyre is 's centre of finance and commerce, and its second largest city, with a population of 800,264 as of 2018. It is sometimes referred to as the commercial and industrial capital of Malawi as opposed to the political capital, .
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  • City with 995,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 1,041 metres (3,415 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code BLZ
  • …dates from 1876
  • Description: city in Malawi
  • Also known as
    “Kapeni”
    “Kubula”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mandala House and St Michael and All Angels Church, Blantyre.

Museum
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is a historic site located in Blantyre, .

Church
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St. Michael and All Angels Church is a church that was…

Hospital
The , is a tertiary…

Blantyre

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Latitude
-15.7863° or 15° 47′ 11″ south
Longitude
35.0036° or 35° 0′ 13″ east
UN/LOCODE
MW BLZ and MW LBE
Open location code
5GPQ6273+FC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27565113
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
931755
Wiki­data ID
Q188693

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Blantyre” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Blantyre”
  • Albanian: “Blantyre”
  • Amharic: “ብላንታየር”
  • Arabic: “بلانتاير”
  • Armenian: “Բլանտայր”
  • Asturian: “Blantyre”
  • Azerbaijani: “Blantire”
  • Azerbaijani: “Blantyre”
  • Balinese: “Blantyre, Malawi”
  • Basque: “Blantyre”
  • Belarusian: “Блантайр”
  • Bengali: “ব্লানতিরে”
  • Bengali: “ব্ল্যানটায়ার”
  • Bengali: “ব্ল্যান্টায়ার”
  • Breton: “Blantyre”
  • Bulgarian: “Блантайр”
  • Bulgarian: “Блантайър”
  • Catalan: “Blantyre”
  • Cebuano: “Blantyre”
  • Chinese: “布兰太尔”
  • Chinese: “布蘭太爾”
  • Czech: “Blantyre”
  • Danish: “Blantyre”
  • Dutch: “Blantyre”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بلانتاير”
  • Esperanto: “Blantjiro”
  • Esperanto: “Blantyre”
  • Estonian: “Blantyre”
  • Finnish: “Blantyre”
  • French: “Blantyre”
  • French: “Chilika”
  • Galician: “Blantyre”
  • Georgian: “ბლანტირე”
  • German: “Blantyre”
  • German: “Kubula”
  • German: “MW-BL”
  • Greek: “Μπλαντάιρ”
  • Guarani: “Blantyre”
  • Gujarati: “બ્લેંટાયર”
  • Hausa: “Blantyre”
  • Hebrew: “בלנטייר”
  • Hindi: “ब्लांटायर”
  • Hindi: “ब्लैंटायर”
  • Hungarian: “Blantyre”
  • Icelandic: “Blantyre”
  • Indonesian: “Blantyre”
  • Irish: “Blantyre”
  • Italian: “Blantyre”
  • Japanese: “ブランタイア”
  • Japanese: “ブランタイヤ”
  • Japanese: “ブランチア”
  • Japanese: “ブランティア”
  • Javanese: “Blantyre”
  • Kabiyè: “Pɩlantiiri”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ಲ್ಯಾಂಟೈರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Блантайр”
  • Kirghiz: “Блантайр”
  • Korean: “블랜타이어”
  • Latvian: “Blantaira”
  • Lithuanian: “Blantairas”
  • Lombard: “Blantyre”
  • Malagasy: “Blantyre”
  • Malay: “Blantyre”
  • Marathi: “ब्लँटायर”
  • Moksha: “Блантайр”
  • Northern Frisian: “Blantyre”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Blantyre”
  • Norwegian: “Blantyre”
  • Nyanja: “Blantyre”
  • Oromo: “Blantyre”
  • Ossetian: “Блантайр”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਲਾਂਟਾਇਰ”
  • Persian: “بلانتایر، مالاوی”
  • Persian: “بلانتایر”
  • Piemontese: “Blantyre”
  • Polish: “Blantyre”
  • Polish: “Kubula”
  • Portuguese: “Blantire”
  • Portuguese: “Blantyre”
  • Pushto: “بلانتاير”
  • Romanian: “Blantyre, Malawi”
  • Romanian: “Blantyre”
  • Russian: “Блантайр-Лимбе”
  • Russian: “Блантайр”
  • Russian: “Блантрайр”
  • Scots: “Blantyre, Malawi”
  • Scots: “Blantyre”
  • Serbian: “Blantajer”
  • Serbian: “Blantyre”
  • Serbian: “Блантаир”
  • Serbian: “Блантајер”
  • Serbian: “Блантир”
  • Sinhala: “බ්ලන්ටයර්”
  • Slovak: “Blantyre”
  • Slovenian: “Blantyre”
  • Slovenian: “Kubula”
  • Slovenian: “MW-BL”
  • Somali: “Blantyre”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بلانتایر، مالاوی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بلانتایر”
  • Spanish: “Blantire”
  • Spanish: “Blantyre”
  • Swahili: “Blantyre”
  • Swedish: “Blantyre (regionhuvudort i Malawi)”
  • Swedish: “Blantyre, Malawi”
  • Swedish: “Blantyre”
  • Tajik: “Блантайр”
  • Tamil: “ப்ளாண்ட்யர்”
  • Tatar: “Блантайр”
  • Telugu: “బ్లాన్ టైర్”
  • Thai: “บลันไทร์”
  • Tumbuka: “Blantyre”
  • Turkish: “Blantyre, Malavi”
  • Turkish: “Blantyre”
  • Ukrainian: “Блантайр”
  • Urdu: “بلانتیئر”
  • Uzbek: “Blantayr”
  • Uzbek: “Blantayrlimbe”
  • Uzbek: “Blantyre”
  • Venetian: “Blantyre”
  • Vietnamese: “Blantyre”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Blantyre-Limbe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Blantyre”
  • Welsh: “Blantyre, Malawi”
  • Welsh: “Blantyre”
  • Wu Chinese: “布兰太尔 (马拉维)”
  • Wu Chinese: “布兰太尔（马拉维）”
  • Yue Chinese: “布蘭太爾”
  • Zulu: “Blantyre”

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