Hell-Ville
Hell-Ville is the largest city on the Madagascan island of Nosy Be. It is officially called Andoany, but is more commonly known by its previous name. It was named after Anne Chrétien Louis de Hell, a French admiral who was governor of Reunion Island from 1838 to 1841.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Anai171, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Esculapio, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 50,300 residents
- Description: borough of the city of Nosy Be
- Also known as: “Andoany”, “Hellville”, and “Helville”
Hell-Ville
- Categories: commune of Madagascar, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Hell-Ville, Nosy Be, Diana Region, Antsiranana Province, Madagascar, East African Islands, Africa
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Latitude
-13.4054° or 13° 24′ 20″ southLongitude
48.2743° or 48° 16′ 28″ eastPopulation
50,300Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)United Nations Location Code
MG HLVOpen location code
5HRCH7VF+RPOpenStreetMap ID
node 254616909OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Hell-Ville” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أندواني”
- Cebuano: “Hell-Ville”
- Croatian: “Andoany”
- Dutch: “Andoany”
- French: “Andoany”
- French: “Hell-Ville”
- German: “Andoany”
- German: “Hell-Ville”
- German: “Hellville”
- Hebrew: “אנדואני”
- Hebrew: “הל-ויל”
- Italian: “Andoany”
- Japanese: “アンドゥアニ”
- Malagasy: “Hell-Ville”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Andoany”
- Norwegian: “Andoany”
- Persian: “آندوآنی”
- Polish: “Andoany”
- Portuguese: “Andoany”
- Russian: “Андуани”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Andoani (grad)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Andoani”
- Swedish: “Andoany”
- Swedish: “Hell-Ville”
- Zulu: “Andoany”
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