Karonga
Karonga is a township in the Karonga District in Northern Region of Malawi. Located on the western shore of Lake Malawi, it was established as a slaving centre sometime before 1877.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Karonga
- Type: Town with 42,600 residents
- Description: township in the Karonga District in Northern Region of Malawi
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Karonga District, Northern Malawi, Malawi, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-9.9394° or 9° 56′ 22″ southLongitude
33.9271° or 33° 55′ 38″ eastPopulation
42,600Elevation
486 metres (1,594 feet)IATA airport code
KGJUnited Nations Location Code
MW KGJOpen location code
6G2M3W6G+7VOpenStreetMap ID
node 258849781OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
235715Wikidata ID
Q1022512
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Karonga” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ريف كارونجا”
- Bulgarian: “Каронга”
- Cebuano: “Karonga”
- Chinese: “卡龍加”
- Chinese: “卡龙加”
- Danish: “Karonga”
- Dutch: “Karonga”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ريف كارونجا”
- French: “Karonga”
- German: “Karonga”
- German: “MW-KR”
- Hebrew: “קרונגה”
- Irish: “Karonga”
- Italian: “Karonga”
- Japanese: “カロンガ”
- Korean: “카롱가”
- Lithuanian: “Karonga”
- Northern Frisian: “Karonga”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karonga”
- Nyanja: “Karonga”
- Persian: “کارونگا”
- Polish: “Karonga”
- Portuguese: “Karonga”
- Romanian: “Karonga”
- Russian: “Каронга”
- South Azerbaijani: “کارونقا”
- Swahili: “Karonga”
- Swedish: “Karonga, Malawi”
- Swedish: “Karonga”
- Tumbuka: “Karonga”
- Turkish: “Karonga, Malavi”
- Turkish: “Karonga”
- Ukrainian: “Каронга”
- Zulu: “Karonga”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Karonga”. Photo: Michaelphoya, CC BY-SA 4.0.