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.
- Town with about 50,300 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 20 metres (80 feet)
- Description: borough of the city of Nosy Be
- Also known as“Andoany”“Helville”
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Latitude
-13.4054° or 13° 24′ 20″ south
Longitude
48.2743° or 48° 16′ 28″ east
UN/LOCODE
MG HLV
Open location code
5HRCH7VF+RP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Hell-Ville” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أندواني”
- Basque: “Hell Ville”
- Cebuano: “Hell-Ville”
- Croatian: “Andoany”
- Dutch: “Andoany”
- French: “Andoany”
- French: “Hell-Ville”
- German: “Andoany”
- German: “Hell-Ville”
- 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”
- Spanish: “Andoany”
- Spanish: “Hell Ville”
- Swedish: “Andoany”
- Swedish: “Hell-Ville”
- Urdu: “اینڈو ائی”
- Zulu: “Andoany”
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