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Calabash

Calabash is a coastal community of 2,000 people in , bordering . Billed as "The Seafood Capital of the World", Calabash is famous for its seafood, prepared with the namesake "Calabash Style" cooking.
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  • Type: Village with 797 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Calabash, NC”, “Calabash, North Carolina”, and “Pea Landing”
  • Postal code: 28467

Calabash

Latitude
33.8907° or 33° 53′ 27″ north
Longitude
-78.5683° or 78° 34′ 6″ west
Population
797
Elevation
49 feet (15 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US LBQ
Open location code
8753VCRJ+7M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158336417
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
4458584
Wiki­data ID
Q2026755
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Calabash” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كالاباش”
  • Basque: “Calabash”
  • Catalan: “Calabash”
  • Cebuano: “Calabash”
  • Chechen: “Калабаш”
  • Chinese: “Calabash”
  • Chinese: “卡拉巴什 (北卡羅萊納州)”
  • Chinese: “卡拉巴什”
  • Dutch: “Calabash”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كالاباش”
  • French: “Calabash”
  • French: “Les calebasses”
  • German: “Calabash”
  • Gilaki: “کالباش (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
  • Gilaki: “کالباش”
  • Haitian: “Calabash, Kawolin dinò”
  • Hungarian: “Calabash”
  • Irish: “Calabash, North Carolina”
  • Irish: “Calabash”
  • Italian: “Calabash”
  • Ladin: “Calabash”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Calabash”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Calabash”
  • Persian: “کلبش”
  • Polish: “Calabash”
  • Portuguese: “Calabash”
  • Serbian: “Калабаш”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Calabash, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Calabash”
  • Slovenian: “Calabash”
  • Spanish: “Calabash”
  • Tatar: “Калабаш”
  • Ukrainian: “Калабаш”
  • Uzbek: “Calabash, North Carolina”
  • Uzbek: “Calabash”
  • Uzbek: “Cалабаш”
  • Volapük: “Calabash, North Carolina”
  • Volapük: “Calabash”

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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 “Calabash”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.