Chimbote

Chimbote; Quechua: Chimputi) is a city in northwestern . It is the largest city in the Ancash Region and the tenth most populous in Peru. With a population of 425,367 in 2017, it is the capital of both Santa Province and .
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Chimbote

Latitude
-9.0745° or 9° 4′ 28″ south
Longitude
-78.5936° or 78° 35′ 37″ west
Population
355,000
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
CHM
UN/LOCODE
PE CHM
Open location code
6723WCG4+6H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 287844737
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3698304
Wiki­data ID
Q518431
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Chimbote” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شيمبوتي”
  • Aragonese: “Chimbote”
  • Armenian: “Չիմբոտե”
  • Asturian: “Chimbote”
  • Aymara: “Chimputi”
  • Basque: “Chimbote”
  • Belarusian: “Чымботэ”
  • Bengali: “চিম্বুতে”
  • Bulgarian: “Чимботе”
  • Catalan: “Chimbote”
  • Cebuano: “Chimbote (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Chimbote”
  • Chinese: “钦博特”
  • Czech: “Chimbote”
  • Danish: “Chimbote”
  • Dutch: “Chimbote”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شيمبوتى”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉimboto”
  • Finnish: “Chimbote”
  • French: “Chimbote”
  • Galician: “Chimbote”
  • Georgian: “ჩიმბოტე”
  • German: “Chimbote”
  • Greek: “Τσιμπότε”
  • Gujarati: “ચિમ્બોટ”
  • Hebrew: “צ’ימבוטה”
  • Hindi: “चिम्बोते”
  • Hungarian: “Chimbote”
  • Indonesian: “Chimbote”
  • Irish: “Chimbote”
  • Italian: “Chimbote”
  • Japanese: “チンボテ”
  • Kannada: “ಚಿಂಬೊಟೆ”
  • Korean: “침보테”
  • Latin: “Cimbotum”
  • Latvian: “Čimbote”
  • Lithuanian: “Čimbotė”
  • Macedonian: “Чимботе”
  • Malay: “Chimbote”
  • Marathi: “चंबोटे”
  • Moksha: “Чимботэ”
  • Northern Sami: “Chimbote”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chimbote”
  • Norwegian: “Chimbote”
  • Persian: “چیمبوته”
  • Polish: “Chimbote”
  • Portuguese: “Chimbote”
  • Quechua: “Chimputi”
  • Romanian: “Chimbote”
  • Russian: “Чимботе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chimbote”
  • Sinhala: “චිම්බොටේ”
  • Sinhala: “චිම්බෝට්, පේරු”
  • Slovak: “Chimbote”
  • Slovenian: “Chimbote”
  • Spanish: “Chimbote”
  • Swedish: “Chimbote”
  • Tamil: “சிம்போட்டே”
  • Tatar: “Чимботе”
  • Telugu: “చింబోట్”
  • Thai: “ชิมโบเต”
  • Turkish: “Chimbote”
  • Ukrainian: “Чимботе”
  • Ukrainian: “Чімботе”
  • Urdu: “چمبوٹے”
  • Venetian: “Chimbote”
  • Vietnamese: “Chimbote”
  • Volapük: “Chimbote”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chimbote”
  • “Chimbote”

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