Malawi
Central Malawi
Lilongwe District

Lilongwe

Lilongwe is the capital of . It's a very green city, to the extent that sometimes you wonder if there is a city centre at all as buildings in the new town at least are divided by patches of grassy land and trees.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Civo Stadium and High Commission of India.

Stadium
The , formerly Stade des Jeunes, is a stadium located in Lilongwe, . It has a seating capacity of 25,000 spectators. It serves as the home of CIVO United of the Malawi Premier Division.

Government office
The has one of the largest diplomatic networks, reflecting its links in the world and particularly in neighbouring regions: , the , , , , and the rest of the .

Zoo
Photo: Nesnad, CC BY 3.0.
The Lilongwe Wildlife Centre is a wildlife sanctuary in Lilongwe, Malawi, which is part of Lilongwe National Park. It was founded in 2007 by the Lilongwe Wildlife Trust and the Born Free Foundation.

Lilongwe

Latitude
-13.9875° or 13° 59′ 15″ south
Longitude
33.7681° or 33° 46′ 5″ east
Population
782,000
Elevation
1,056 metres (3,465 feet)
IATA airport code
LLW
United Nations Location Code
MW LLW
Open location code
5GRM2Q69+X7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6765699485
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
927967
Wiki­data ID
Q3876
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Lilongwe” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Lilongwe”
  • Albanian: “Lilongwe”
  • Amharic: “ሊሎንጔ”
  • Arabic: “ليلونغوي”
  • Aragonese: “Lilongwe”
  • Armenian: “Լիլոնգվե”
  • Asturian: “Lilongüe”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lilonqve”
  • Balinese: “Lilongwe”
  • Basque: “Lilongwe”
  • Belarusian: “Лілонгвэ”
  • Bengali: “লিলংগুয়ে”
  • Bosnian: “Lilongwe”
  • Breton: “Lilongwe”
  • Bulgarian: “Лилонгве”
  • Catalan: “Lilongwe”
  • Cebuano: “Lilongwe (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Lilongwe”
  • Central Kurdish: “لیلۆنگوێ”
  • Chechen: “Лилонгве”
  • Chinese: “Lilongwe”
  • Chinese: “利隆圭”
  • Chinese: “里朗威”
  • Croatian: “Lilongwe”
  • Czech: “Lilongwe”
  • Danish: “Lilongwe”
  • Dutch: “Lilongwe”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليلونجوى”
  • Esperanto: “Lilongvo”
  • Estonian: “Lilongwe”
  • Extremaduran: “Lilongüe”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Lilongwe”
  • Finnish: “Lilongwe”
  • French: “Lilongwe”
  • Galician: “Lilongwe”
  • Ganda: “Lilongwe”
  • Georgian: “ლილონგვე”
  • German: “Lilongwe”
  • Greek: “Λιλόνγκουε”
  • Guarani: “Lilongue”
  • Gujarati: “લિલોંગ્વે”
  • Haitian: “Lilongwe”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Lilongwe”
  • Hausa: “Lilongwe”
  • Hebrew: “לילונגווה”
  • Hindi: “लिलोंगवे”
  • Hindi: “लिलोंगवेल”
  • Hungarian: “Lilongwe”
  • Icelandic: “Lílongve”
  • Icelandic: “Lilongwe”
  • Ido: “Lilongwe”
  • Inari Sami: “Lilongwe”
  • Indonesian: “Lilongwe”
  • Interlingua: “Lilongwe”
  • Interlingue: “Lilongwe”
  • Irish: “Lilongwe”
  • Italian: “Lilongwe”
  • Japanese: “リロングウェ”
  • Javanese: “Lilongwe”
  • Kabyle: “Lilongwe”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿಲೊಂಗ್ವೆ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Лилонгве”
  • Kazakh: “Лилонгве”
  • Khmer: “លីឡុងវេ”
  • Kirghiz: “Лилонгве”
  • Kongo: “Lilongwe”
  • Korean: “릴롱궤”
  • Kotava: “Lilongwe”
  • Latin: “Lilongwe”
  • Latvian: “Lilongve”
  • Ligurian: “Lilongwe”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Lilongwe”
  • Lithuanian: “Lilongvė”
  • Livvi: “Lilongve”
  • Lombard: “Lilongwe”
  • Low German: “Lilongwe”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Lilongwe”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lilongwe”
  • Macedonian: “Лилонгве”
  • Malagasy: “Lilongwe”
  • Malay: “Lilongwe”
  • Malayalam: “ലിലോൻഗ്വേ”
  • Marathi: “लिलाँग्वे”
  • Mazanderani: “لیلونگوه”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Lilongwe”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lilongwe”
  • Minangkabau: “Lilongwe”
  • Mingrelian: “ლილონგვე”
  • Moksha: “Лилонгвэ”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ليلونڭوي”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lilongwe”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lilongwe”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lilongwe”
  • Norwegian: “Lilongwe”
  • Novial: “Lilongwe”
  • Nyanja: “Lilongwe”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lilongwe”
  • Ossetian: “Лилонгве”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਿਲਾਂਗਵੇ”
  • Papiamento: “Lilongwe”
  • Persian: “لیلونگوه”
  • Piemontese: “Lilongwe”
  • Polish: “Lilongwe”
  • Portuguese: “Lilongue”
  • Portuguese: “Lilongué”
  • Portuguese: “Lilôngué”
  • Portuguese: “Lilongwe”
  • Pushto: “لیلونګوه”
  • Romanian: “Lilongwe”
  • Russian: “Лилонгве”
  • Samogitian: “Lilongvė”
  • Sardinian: “Lilongwe”
  • Scots: “Lilongwe”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lilongwe”
  • Serbian: “Лилонгве”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lilongwe”
  • Shona: “Lilongwe”
  • Sindhi: “ليلونگوي”
  • Sinhala: “ලිලොන්ග්වේ”
  • Slovak: “Lilongwe”
  • Slovenian: “Lilongwe”
  • Somali: “Lilongwe”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لیلونگوه”
  • Southern Sotho: “Lilongwe”
  • Spanish: “Lilongüe”
  • Spanish: “Lilongwe”
  • Swahili: “Lilongwe”
  • Swedish: “Lilongwe (huvudstaden)”
  • Swedish: “Lilongwe”
  • Tagalog: “Lilongwe”
  • Tajik: “Лилонгве”
  • Talysh: “Lilongve”
  • Talysh: “Lilonqve”
  • Tamil: “லிலொங்வே”
  • Telugu: “లిలోంగ్వే”
  • Thai: “ลิลองเว”
  • Tibetan: “ལི་ལོང་ཀུའེ།”
  • Tumbuka: “Lilongwe”
  • Turkish: “Lilongwe”
  • Udmurt: “Лилонгве”
  • Ukrainian: “Лілонгве”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Lilongwe”
  • Urdu: “لیلونگوے”
  • Uzbek: “Lilongve”
  • Venetian: “Lilongwe”
  • Veps: “Lilongve”
  • Vietnamese: “Lilongwe”
  • Volapük: “Lilongwe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lilongwe”
  • Welsh: “Lilongwe”
  • Western Frisian: “Lilongwe”
  • Western Mari: “Лилонгве”
  • Western Panjabi: “لیلیونگوے”
  • Wolof: “Lilongwe”
  • Wu Chinese: “利隆圭”
  • Yiddish: “לילאנגווע”
  • Yoruba: “Lilongwe”
  • Yue Chinese: “里朗威”
  • Zulu: “i-Lilongwe”
  • Zulu: “Lilongwe”
  • “Lilongvė”
  • “Lilonhue”
  • “ma tomo Lilonwe”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Lilongwe”. Photo: Bdell555, Public domain.