Lichinga
Lichinga is the capital city of Niassa Province of Mozambique. It lies on the Lichinga Plateau at an altitude of 1,360 metres, east of Lake Niassa. The town was founded as Vila Cabral as a farming and military settlement.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Lichinga
- Type: City with 142,000 residents
- Description: Província do Niassa
- Categories: municipality of Mozambique, big city, and locality
- Location: Niassa Province, Northern Mozambique, Mozambique, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-13.2999° or 13° 17′ 60″ southLongitude
35.2459° or 35° 14′ 45″ eastPopulation
142,000Elevation
1,349 metres (4,426 feet)IATA airport code
VXCUnited Nations Location Code
MZ VXCOpen location code
5GRQP62W+28OpenStreetMap ID
node 335126704OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1043893Wikidata ID
Q667650
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Lichinga” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Lichinga”
- Afrikaans: “Vila Cabral”
- Arabic: “ليشنجا”
- Armenian: “Լիշինգա”
- Asturian: “Lichinga”
- Basque: “Lichinga”
- Bengali: “লিচিঙ্গা”
- Catalan: “Lichinga”
- Catalan: “Vila Cabral”
- Cebuano: “Lichinga”
- Chinese: “利欣加”
- Chinese: “利秦嘉”
- Croatian: “Lichinga”
- Croatian: “Vila Cabral”
- Czech: “Lichinga”
- Danish: “Lichinga”
- Dutch: “Lichinga”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليشنجا”
- Esperanto: “Lichinga”
- Finnish: “Lichinga”
- French: “Lichinga”
- Gagauz: “Lichinga”
- Georgian: “ლიშინგა”
- German: “Lichinga”
- German: “Vila Cabral”
- Greek: “Λιτσίνγκα”
- Gujarati: “લીચિંગા”
- Hebrew: “ליצ’ינגה”
- Hindi: “लिचिनगा”
- Indonesian: “Lichinga”
- Irish: “Lichinga”
- Italian: “Lichinga”
- Japanese: “ヴィラ・カブラル”
- Japanese: “リシンガ”
- Japanese: “リチンガ”
- Kannada: “ಲಿಚಿಂಗ”
- Korean: “리싱가”
- Latvian: “Lišinga”
- Lithuanian: “Lišinga”
- Lithuanian: “Lišingas”
- Malagasy: “Lichinga”
- Malay: “Lichinga”
- Marathi: “लिचिंगा”
- Moksha: “Лишинга”
- Northern Frisian: “Lichinga”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lichinga”
- Norwegian: “Lichinga”
- Persian: “لیچینگا، موزامبیک”
- Polish: “Lichinga”
- Polish: “Vila Cabral”
- Portuguese: “Lichinga”
- Portuguese: “Vila Cabral”
- Romanian: “Lichinga”
- Russian: “Лишинга”
- Sinhala: “ලිචින්ගා”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Lichinga”
- Spanish: “Lichinga”
- Spanish: “Villa Cabral”
- Swahili: “Lichinga”
- Swedish: “Lichinga”
- Tamil: “லீசிங்கா”
- Telugu: “లీచింగా”
- Thai: “ลิชินการ์”
- Turkish: “Lichinga”
- Ukrainian: “Лішинга”
- Urdu: “لیچینگا”
- Venetian: “Lichinga”
- Vietnamese: “Lichinga”
- Wu Chinese: “利欣加”
- Yue Chinese: “利秦嘉”
- Zulu: “Lichinga”
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