Cuamba
Cuamba is a city in Niassa province, in north-west Mozambique. It is an important rail and road junction, and is often used as a stop off on the way to/from Malawi.
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- Type: Town with 91,800 residents
- Description: city in Mozambique
- Also known as: “Cuanda”, “Guamba”, “Kwamba”, “Mucuamba”, “Mukwamba”, and “Nova Freixo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cuamba Airport.
Cuamba Airport
Aerodrome
Cuamba Airport is an airport serving Cuamba, a city in the Niassa Province in Mozambique. The airport is in the southern part of the city and is a major airport in the province of Niassa in central Mozambique.
Cuamba
- Categories: city, municipality of Mozambique, and locality
- Location: Niassa Province, Northern Mozambique, Mozambique, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-14.798° or 14° 47′ 53″ south
Longitude
36.5399° or 36° 32′ 24″ east
Population
91,800
Elevation
586 metres (1,923 feet)
IATA airport code
FXO
United Nations Location Code
MZ FXO
Open location code
5GQR6G2Q+RW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Zulu—“Cuamba” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Cuamba”
- Catalan: “Cuamba”
- Cebuano: “Cuamba”
- Chinese: “库安巴”
- Chinese: “誇姆巴”
- Croatian: “Cuamba”
- Danish: “Cuamba”
- Dutch: “Cuamba”
- Esperanto: “Cuamba”
- Finnish: “Cuamba”
- French: “Cuamba”
- Gagauz: “Cuamba”
- Georgian: “კუამბა”
- German: “Cuamba”
- Italian: “Cuamba”
- Japanese: “クアンバ”
- Malagasy: “Cuamba”
- Persian: “کوامبا، موزامبیک”
- Polish: “Cuamba”
- Portuguese: “Cuamba”
- Romanian: “Cuamba”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Cuamba”
- Spanish: “Cuamba”
- Swahili: “Cuamba”
- Swedish: “Cuamba”
- Zulu: “Cuamba”
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