Maó
Maó is the capital city of Menorca. It has a fine natural harbour, one of the best in the Mediterranean, which was why the British made it the capital following their occupation of 1708.Photo: Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0.
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- Type: Town with 27,300 residents
- Description: capital city of the island of Menorca, Spain
- Also known as: “07032”, “Mahón”, and “Port Mahon”
- Neighbors: Es Castell, Es Mercadal, and Sant Lluís
Places of Interest
Highlights include Illa del Rei and Museum of Menorca.
Illa del Rei
Islet
Photo: Dreizung, CC BY-SA 3.0.
L'Illa del Rei, also called Hospital Island in English, is a small island in the middle of the main navigable entry channel to Mahon on the northeastern side of Menorca in the Mediterranean Sea.
Museum of Menorca
Museum
Museo de Menorca is a public institution located in the city of Mahón, Balearic Islands, Spain, which is devoted to the research and diffusion of the prehistory and history of Menorca.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Es Castell and Sa Mesquida.
Es Castell
Es Castell is a town of almost 8,000 people at the mouth of the port of Maó in the east of Menorca. The town takes its name from the Castle of San Felipe, which was built to protect the island against attacks by the Turks in the 16th century.
Maó
- Categories: municipality of Spain and locality
- Location: Balearic Islands, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.8895° or 39° 53′ 22″ northLongitude
4.2662° or 4° 15′ 58″ eastPopulation
27,300Elevation
48 metres (157 feet)IATA airport code
MAHOpen location code
8FF6V7Q8+QFOpenStreetMap ID
node 272592937OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Maó from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Frisian—“Maó” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Mahón”
- Arabic: “ماهون”
- Arabic: “ماون، جزر البليار”
- Aragonese: “Maó”
- Asturian: “Maó”
- Basque: “Maó”
- Belarusian: “Маон”
- Catalan: “Maó”
- Cebuano: “Mahón”
- Chechen: “Маон”
- Chinese: “馬翁 (巴利阿里群島)”
- Chinese: “马翁”
- Czech: “Maó-Mahón”
- Danish: “Mahón”
- Dutch: “Mao”
- Dutch: “Maó”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماون, جزر البليار”
- Esperanto: “Maono”
- Estonian: “Mahón”
- Estonian: “Maó”
- Finnish: “Mahón”
- Finnish: “Maó”
- French: “Maó”
- French: “Port Mahon”
- Galician: “Maó”
- Georgian: “მაონი”
- German: “Mahon”
- German: “Maó”
- German: “Port Mahon”
- Hebrew: “מאון”
- Hungarian: “Mahón”
- Ido: “Mahón”
- Indonesian: “Mahon”
- Interlingua: “Maó”
- Irish: “Mahon”
- Italian: “Mahón”
- Japanese: “マオー”
- Korean: “마온”
- Ladin: “Maó”
- Ladino: “Mahon”
- Lithuanian: “Mahonas”
- Lithuanian: “Mao Mahonas”
- Lombard: “Mahón”
- Macedonian: “Маон”
- Malagasy: “Maó”
- Malay: “Port Mahon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mahón”
- Norwegian: “Mahón”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mao”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Maó”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Maon”
- Persian: “مائ”
- Persian: “مائون”
- Polish: “Mahón”
- Polish: “Maó”
- Portuguese: “Maó”
- Russian: “Маон”
- Sardinian: “Mahón”
- Serbian: “Маон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Maó-Mahón”
- Slovak: “Mahón”
- Slovenian: “Mahon”
- Slovenian: “Maó”
- Slovenian: “Port Mahon”
- South Azerbaijani: “مائون”
- Spanish: “Mahón”
- Swedish: “Mahón”
- Swedish: “Maó”
- Tatar: “Маон”
- Thai: “มาโอ-มาออน”
- Thai: “มาโอ”
- Turkish: “Mahón”
- Turkish: “Maó”
- Ukrainian: “Мао”
- Urdu: “ماہون”
- Venetian: “Mahón”
- Vietnamese: “Mahon”
- Vietnamese: “Mahón”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mahon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mahón”
- Welsh: “Maó-Mahón”
- Western Frisian: “Mahón”
- “Mahón”
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