Chikwawa
Chikwawa is a town with a population of 6,114 according to the 2018 census located in the Southern Region of Malawi on the west bank of the Shire River.- Town with 6,990 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 106 metres (348 feet)
- …is also known as “Chikhwawa”
- Description: city in Malawi
Chikwawa
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Latitude
-16.0271° or 16° 1′ 38″ south
Longitude
34.7912° or 34° 47′ 28″ east
Open location code
5GMPXQFR+4F
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Zulu—“Chikwawa” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Chikwawa”
- Cebuano: “Chikwawa (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Chikwawa”
- Chinese: “奇夸瓦”
- Dutch: “Chikwawa”
- French: “Chikwawa”
- Fulah: “Chikwawa”
- German: “Chikwawa”
- German: “MW-CK”
- Hausa: “Chikwawa”
- Hausa: “Cikwawa”
- Italian: “Chikwawa”
- Japanese: “チクワワ”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Chikwawa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chikwawa”
- Nyanja: “Chikwawa”
- Polish: “Chikwawa”
- Romanian: “Chikwawa”
- Swahili: “Chikwawa”
- Swedish: “Chikwawa”
- Turkish: “Chikwawa, Malavi”
- Turkish: “Chikwawa”
- Zulu: “Chikwawa”
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