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Maranhão

Caxias

Caxias is a city of 157,000 people in Eastern . It is one of the largest economic centers in the state, and an important political, cultural and population center in the state of Maranhão.
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  • Type: City with 157,000 residents
  • Description: municipality of Maranhão state, Brazil
  • Also known as: “Caxias das Aldeias Altas” and “Caxias, Maranhão”
  • Neighbors:

Caxias

Latitude
-4.8654° or 4° 51′ 56″ south
Longitude
-43.3537° or 43° 21′ 13″ west
Population
157,000
Elevation
83 metres (272 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BR CXS
Open location code
687R4JMW+RG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 320653422
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3402383
Wiki­data ID
Q997107
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Caxias” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كاكسياس”
  • Armenian: “Կաշիաս”
  • Basque: “Caxias”
  • Belarusian: “Кашыяс”
  • Bengali: “ক্যাাজিয়াস”
  • Catalan: “Caxias”
  • Cebuano: “Caxias”
  • Chechen: “Кашиас”
  • Chinese: “Caxias”
  • Chinese: “卡希亚斯”
  • Danish: “Caxias”
  • Dutch: “Caxias”
  • Esperanto: “Caxias”
  • Finnish: “Caxias”
  • French: “Caxias”
  • Georgian: “კაშიასი”
  • German: “Caxias”
  • Greek: “Κάξιας”
  • Gujarati: “કેક્સિયાસ”
  • Hindi: “कैकसियास”
  • Hungarian: “Caxias”
  • Ido: “Caxias, Maranhão”
  • Ido: “Caxias”
  • Indonesian: “Caxias”
  • Irish: “Caxias”
  • Italian: “Caxias”
  • Japanese: “カシアス”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಕ್ಸಿಯಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Kaşïas”
  • Kazakh: “Кашиас”
  • Kazakh: “كاشىياس”
  • Korean: “카시아스”
  • Latvian: “Kašijasa”
  • Lithuanian: “Kašiasas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kašijasas”
  • Malay: “Caxias”
  • Marathi: “कॅक्सिअस”
  • Mazanderani: “کاژیاس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Caxias”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Caxias”
  • Norwegian: “Caxias”
  • Polish: “Caxias”
  • Portuguese: “Caxias”
  • Portuguese: “Princesa do Sertão Maranhense”
  • Romanian: “Caxias”
  • Russian: “Кашиас”
  • Sinhala: “කක්සියාස්”
  • Slovenian: “Caxias”
  • Spanish: “Caxias”
  • Swedish: “Caxias”
  • Tamil: “கேசியாஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Кашиас”
  • Telugu: “కక్షియస్”
  • Thai: “คาเซียส”
  • Turkish: “Caxias”
  • Ukrainian: “Кашиас”
  • Ukrainian: “Кашіас”
  • Urdu: “کازیاس”
  • Uzbek: “Caxias”
  • Venetian: “Caxias”
  • Vietnamese: “Caxias”
  • Volapük: “Caxias”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Caxias, Maranhão”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Caxias”

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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 “Caxias”. Photo: Amanari, CC BY-SA 4.0.