Brazzaville

Brazzaville is the capital of the Republic of Congo, and serves as the financial and administrative center of the country. It can be a pleasant stopover to Pointe Noire or visits to the Congolese rain forests.
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  • Type: City with 1,930,000 residents
  • Description: capital of the Republic of the Congo
  • Also known as: “Maya-Maya”, “N’Tamo”, “Tshimenga tshikulu tshia Brazzaville”, “ব্রাজ্জাভিলি”, “பரேசாவில்லே”, “பிரேசாவில்லே”, and “布拉扎维”
  • Neighbors:
Photo: Kimmyfari, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Maya-Maya Airport and Basilica of Sainte-Anne-du-Congo in Brazzaville.

Aerodrome
Photo: Unsonique, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Maya–Maya International Airport is an international…

Church
Photo: NGOULOU BATALA Ryddhel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Basilica of Sainte-Anne-du-Congo is a monumental…

Office building
Photo: Leon Bilili, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , also known as Elf Tower…

Brazzaville

Latitude
-4.2667° or 4° 16′ south
Longitude
15.2833° or 15° 17′ east
Population
1,930,000
Elevation
284 metres (932 feet)
IATA airport code
BZV
UN/LOCODE
CG BZV
Open location code
6F7QP7MM+88
Open­Street­Map ID
node 435903633
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2260535
Wiki­data ID
Q3844
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Brazzaville” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Brazzaville”
  • Albanian: “Brazzaville”
  • Amharic: “ብራዛቪል”
  • Arabic: “برازافيل”
  • Aragonese: “Brazzaville”
  • Armenian: “Բրազավիլ”
  • Asturian: “Brazzaville”
  • Azerbaijani: “Brazzavil”
  • Balinese: “Brazzaville”
  • Bashkir: “Браззавиль”
  • Basque: “Brazzaville”
  • Belarusian: “Бразавіль”
  • Bengali: “ব্রাজাভিল”
  • Bosnian: “Brazzaville”
  • Breton: “Brazzaville”
  • Bulgarian: “Бразавил”
  • Burmese: “ဘရာဇာဗီးလ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Brazzaville”
  • Cebuano: “Brazzaville (ulohang dakbayan sa Republika sa Congo)”
  • Cebuano: “Brazzaville”
  • Central Bikol: “Brazzaville”
  • Central Kanuri: “Brazzaville”
  • Central Kurdish: “برازاڤیل”
  • Chechen: “Браззавиль”
  • Cheyenne: “Brazzaville”
  • Chinese: “布拉柴維爾”
  • Chinese: “布拉柴维尔”
  • Croatian: “Brazzaville”
  • Czech: “Brazzaville”
  • Danish: “Brazzaville”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Brazzaville”
  • Dutch: “Brazzaville”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “برازافيل”
  • Esperanto: “Brazavilo”
  • Estonian: “Brazzaville”
  • Extremaduran: “Brazzaville”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Brazzaville”
  • Finnish: “Brazzaville”
  • French: “Brazzaville”
  • Galician: “Brazzaville”
  • Georgian: “ბრაზავილი”
  • German: “Brazzaville”
  • Greek: “Μπραζαβίλ”
  • Guarani: “Brazzaville”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રાઝાવિલ”
  • Haitian: “Brazavil”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Brazzaville”
  • Hausa: “Brazzaville”
  • Hebrew: “ברזוויל”
  • Hindi: “ब्राजाविल”
  • Hindi: “ब्राज़िविले”
  • Hungarian: “Brazzaville”
  • Icelandic: “Brazzaville”
  • Ido: “Brazzaville”
  • Inari Sami: “Brazzaville”
  • Indonesian: “Brazzaville”
  • Interlingua: “Brazzaville”
  • Irish: “Brazzaville”
  • Italian: “Brazzaville”
  • Japanese: “ブラザヴィル”
  • Javanese: “Brazzaville”
  • Kabiyè: “Pɩrazaviili”
  • Kabyle: “Brazzaville”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರೆಜಾವಿಲ್ಲೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Браззавиль”
  • Khmer: “ប្រាហ្សាវីល”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Brazzaville”
  • Kirghiz: “Браззавиль”
  • Kongo: “Balazavile”
  • Kongo: “Braza”
  • Kongo: “Brazzaville”
  • Kongo: “Mavula”
  • Korean: “브라자빌”
  • Kotava: “Brazzaville”
  • Kurdish: “Brazzaville”
  • Latin: “Brazzapolis”
  • Latvian: “Brazavila”
  • Ligurian: “Brazzaville”
  • Lingala: “Blazavile”
  • Lingala: “Brazzaville”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Brazzaville”
  • Lithuanian: “Brazavilis”
  • Livvi: “Brazzavil”
  • Lombard: “Brazzaville”
  • Low German: “Brazzaville”
  • Luba-Lulua: “Brazzaville”
  • Luxembourgish: “Brazzaville”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Brazzaville”
  • Macedonian: “Бразавил”
  • Malagasy: “Brazzavile”
  • Malagasy: “Brazzaville”
  • Malay: “Brazzaville”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്രാസവില്ലെ”
  • Marathi: “ब्राझाव्हिल”
  • Mazanderani: “برازاویل”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Brazzaville”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Brazzaville”
  • Minangkabau: “Brazzaville”
  • Mingrelian: “ბრაზავილი”
  • Moksha: “Браззавиль”
  • Mongolian: “Браззавиль”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “برازاڤيل”
  • Navajo: “Náhookǫsjí Teełtah Hahazteel”
  • Northern Frisian: “Brazzaville”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brazzaville”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brazzaville”
  • Norwegian: “Brazzaville”
  • Novial: “Brazavil”
  • Nyanja: “Brazzaville”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Brazzaville”
  • Oriya: “ବ୍ରାଜାଭିଲ”
  • Ossetian: “Браззавиль”
  • Panjabi: “ਬ੍ਰਾਜ਼ਾਵਿਲ”
  • Papiamento: “Brazzaville”
  • Persian: “برازاویل”
  • Persian: “برازویل”
  • Piemontese: “Brazzaville”
  • Polish: “Brazzaville”
  • Portuguese: “Brazavile”
  • Portuguese: “Brazzaville”
  • Pushto: “برازاویل”
  • Quechua: “Brazzaville”
  • Romanian: “Brazzaville”
  • Russian: “Браззавиль”
  • Rusyn: “Бразавіль”
  • Samogitian: “Brazavilis”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱨᱟᱡᱟᱵᱷᱤᱞ”
  • Sardinian: “Brazzaville”
  • Scots: “Brazzaville”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Brazzaville”
  • Serbian: “Бразавил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brazzaville”
  • Shona: “Brazzaville”
  • Sicilian: “Brazzaville”
  • Silesian: “Brazzaville”
  • Sindhi: “برازاويل”
  • Sinhala: “බ්‍රසවිලි”
  • Slovak: “Brazzaville”
  • Slovenian: “Brazzaville”
  • Somali: “Barasafille”
  • Spanish: “Brazzaville”
  • Swahili: “Brazzaville”
  • Swedish: “Brazzaville”
  • Tagalog: “Brazzaville”
  • Tajik: “Браззавил”
  • Tamil: “பிராசவில்லி”
  • Telugu: “బ్రేజావిల్లె”
  • Thai: “บราซซาวิล”
  • Thai: “บราซาวีล”
  • Tibetan: “བ་ར་ཛ་བི་ལི།”
  • Turkish: “Brazavil”
  • Turkish: “Brazzaville”
  • Udmurt: “Браззавиль”
  • Ukrainian: “Браззавіль”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Brazzaville”
  • Urdu: “برازاویل”
  • Urdu: “برازاویلے”
  • Uzbek: “Brazzavil”
  • Venetian: “Brazzaville”
  • Veps: “Brazzavil‘”
  • Veps: “Brazzavil’”
  • Vietnamese: “Brazzaville”
  • Volapük: “Brazzaville”
  • Võro: “Brazzaville”
  • Walloon: “Brazaveye”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Brazzaville”
  • Welsh: “Brazzaville”
  • Western Frisian: “Brazzaville”
  • Western Panjabi: “برازاولے”
  • Wolof: “Brasawil”
  • Wu Chinese: “布拉柴維爾”
  • Xhosa: “IBrazzaville”
  • Yiddish: “בראזאוויל”
  • Yoruba: “Brazzaville”
  • Yue Chinese: “布拉柴維爾”
  • Zulu: “Brazzaville”
  • Zulu: “i-Brazzaville”
  • “Brazzaville”

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