Foulpointe
Mahavelona is a town is in Toamasina Province. It is a quiet and peaceful village in the northeast of Madagascar, in the region of Atsinanana. This former 18th-century French counter is today a beautiful seaside resort.- Type: Town with 7,990 residents
- Description: city in Atsinanana Region, Madagascar
- Also known as: “Mahavelona”
Foulpointe
- Categories: commune of Madagascar and locality
- Location: Mahavelona (Foulpointe), Toamasina II District, Atsinanana, Toamasina Province, Madagascar, East African Islands, Africa
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Latitude
-17.6789° or 17° 40′ 44″ south
Longitude
49.5119° or 49° 30′ 43″ east
Population
7,990
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
Open location code
5HJF8GC6+FP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Foulpointe” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماهاليفونا”
- Basque: “Mahavelona”
- Bulgarian: “Махавелона”
- Cebuano: “Mahavelona”
- Chinese: “馬哈韋盧納”
- Chinese: “马哈莱武纳”
- Croatian: “Mahavelona”
- Dutch: “Mahavelona”
- French: “Foulepointe”
- French: “Foulpointe”
- French: “Fullpoint”
- French: “FullPoint”
- French: “Mahavelona”
- Indonesian: “Mahavelona”
- Italian: “Foulpointe”
- Italian: “Mahavelona”
- Malagasy: “Mahavelona”
- Persian: “ماهالوونا”
- Russian: “Фулпуант”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mahavelona”
- Spanish: “Foulpointe”
- Spanish: “Mahavelona”
- Swedish: “Mahavelona”
- Ukrainian: “Махавелуна”
- Urdu: “مہالیوونا”
- “Mahavelona”
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