Karonga
Karonga is a township in the Karonga District in Northern Region of Malawi in southeastern Africa. Located on the western shore of Lake Malawi, it was established as a slaving centre sometime before 1877.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Karonga Stadium.
Karonga Stadium
Stadium
Karonga Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Karonga, Malawi. It is the venue for the TNM Super League clubs Karonga United and Karonga FC. The sitting capacity of the stadium is 20,000.
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
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-9.9394° or 9° 56′ 22″ south
Longitude
33.9271° or 33° 55′ 38″ east
Population
42,600
Elevation
486 metres (1,594 feet)
IATA airport code
KGJ
United Nations Location Code
MW KGJ
Open location code
6G2M3W6G+7V
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 Zulu—“Karonga” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ريف كارونجا”
- Asturian: “Karonga”
- 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”
- Hausa: “Karonga”
- 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”
- Somali: “Karonga”
- South Azerbaijani: “کارونقا”
- Swahili: “Karonga”
- Swedish: “Karonga, Malawi”
- Swedish: “Karonga”
- Tumbuka: “Karonga”
- Turkish: “Karonga, Malavi”
- Turkish: “Karonga”
- Ukrainian: “Каронга”
- Urdu: “کارونگا”
- Zulu: “Karonga”
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