Loja

Loja, formerly Loxa and fully City of the Immaculate Conception of Loja, is the capital of 's . It is located in the Cuxibamba valley in the south of the country, sharing borders with the provinces of and other cantons of the province of Loja.
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  • Type: City with 181,000 residents
  • Description: city in Ecuador, capital of the Loja Province
  • Also known as: “City of Loja”, “Ciudad Loja”, “Inmaculada Concepción de Loja”, “Loja Ecuador”, “Loja, Ecuador”, “Loja, Equador”, “Loja, Équateur”, “Лойя”, and “لويا”

Loja

Latitude
-3.9968° or 3° 59′ 49″ south
Longitude
-79.2017° or 79° 12′ 6″ west
Population
181,000
Elevation
2,060 metres (6,759 feet)
IATA airport code
LOH
UN/LOCODE
EC LOH
Open location code
67822Q3X+78
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4729574707
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3654667
Wiki­data ID
Q944697
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Loja” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሎጃ”
  • Arabic: “لوخا”
  • Armenian: “Լոխա”
  • Asturian: “Loja”
  • Azerbaijani: “Loja”
  • Basque: “Loja”
  • Belarusian: “Лёха”
  • Belarusian: “Лоха”
  • Bengali: “লোজা”
  • Bosnian: “Loja”
  • Breton: “Loja”
  • Catalan: “Loja”
  • Cebuano: “Loja (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Loja”
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Loja”
  • Chinese: “洛哈”
  • Croatian: “Loja”
  • Czech: “Loja”
  • Danish: “Loja”
  • Dutch: “Loja”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لوخا”
  • Esperanto: “Loĥo”
  • Finnish: “Loja”
  • French: “Loja”
  • Galician: “Loja”
  • Georgian: “ლოხა (ეკვადორი)”
  • Georgian: “ლოხა”
  • German: “Loja”
  • Greek: “Λόχα”
  • Gujarati: “લોજા”
  • Hausa: “Loja”
  • Hebrew: “לוחה”
  • Hindi: “लोख़ा”
  • Hindi: “लोजा”
  • Hungarian: “Loja”
  • Indonesian: “Loja”
  • Irish: “Loja”
  • Italian: “Loja”
  • Japanese: “ロハ”
  • Javanese: “Loja”
  • Kannada: “ಲೋಜಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Лоха”
  • Kirghiz: “Лоха”
  • Korean: “로하”
  • Latvian: “Loha”
  • Lithuanian: “Locha”
  • Malay: “Loja”
  • Marathi: “लॉजा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Loja”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Loja”
  • Norwegian: “Loja”
  • Oromo: “Loja”
  • Ossetian: “Лохæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਲੋਜਾ”
  • Persian: “لوجا، اکوادور”
  • Persian: “لوجا”
  • Persian: “لوخا”
  • Polish: “Loja”
  • Portuguese: “Loja”
  • Pushto: “لوجا”
  • Quechua: “Loja”
  • Romanian: “Loja, Ecuador”
  • Romanian: “Loja”
  • Russian: “Лоха”
  • Scots: “Loja”
  • Serbian: “Лоја”
  • Serbian: “Лоха”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Loja”
  • Sinhala: “ලොජා, ඉක්වදෝරය”
  • Sinhala: “ලොජා”
  • Slovak: “Loja”
  • Somali: “Loja”
  • Spanish: “Loja”
  • Swahili: “Loja”
  • Swedish: “Loja”
  • Tajik: “Лоха”
  • Tamil: “லோஜா”
  • Tatar: “Loja”
  • Tatar: “Лоха”
  • Telugu: “లోజా”
  • Thai: “โลฆา”
  • Turkish: “Loja”
  • Turkish: “Lova”
  • Ukrainian: “Лоха”
  • Urdu: “لوخا، ایکواڈور”
  • Uzbek: “Loja”
  • Vietnamese: “Loja”
  • Volapük: “Loja”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Loja, Loja”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Loja”
  • Welsh: “Loja”
  • Western Panjabi: “لوجا”
  • Wu Chinese: “洛哈 (厄瓜多尔)”
  • Wu Chinese: “洛哈（厄瓜多尔）”

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