Mafia Island
Mafia Island or Chole Shamba is an island of The Mafia Archipelago located in Mafia District in the southern Pwani Region of Tanzania across the Mafia Channel.Photo: Forodin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island off Tanzania
- Also known as: “Mafia District” and “Mafia District Council”
Mafia Island
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Coast, Pembwe and the Southeast, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-7.843° or 7° 50′ 35″ southLongitude
39.7853° or 39° 47′ 7″ eastPopulation
40,800Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)Open location code
6G4X5Q4P+R4OpenStreetMap ID
node 608069501OpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
155411Wikidata ID
Q713391
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Mafia Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة مافيا”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Мафія”
- Belarusian: “Мафія”
- Bulgarian: “Мафия”
- Catalan: “Mafia Island”
- Catalan: “Mafia”
- Cebuano: “Mafia Island”
- Chinese: “门肥赤”
- Chinese: “馬菲亞島”
- Chinese: “马菲亚岛”
- Croatian: “Mafia”
- Czech: “Mafia”
- Danish: “Mafiaøen”
- Dutch: “Mafia (eiland)”
- Dutch: “Mafia Island”
- Dutch: “Mafia”
- Esperanto: “Mafia”
- Estonian: “Mafia saar”
- Estonian: “Mafia”
- Finnish: “Mafia”
- French: “Mafia”
- Georgian: “მაფია”
- German: “Mafia”
- Greek: “Νήσος Μαφία”
- Greek: “Νήσος Μάφια”
- Hebrew: “מאפיה”
- Hungarian: “Mafia-sziget”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Mafia”
- Italian: “Chole Samba”
- Italian: “Isola di Mafia”
- Italian: “Mafia”
- Japanese: “マフィア島”
- Korean: “마피아섬”
- Kotava: “Mafia”
- Latvian: “Mafija (sala)”
- Latvian: “Mafija”
- Lithuanian: “Mafijos sala”
- Macedonian: “Мафија”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mafia Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mafia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mafiaøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mafiaøya”
- Norwegian: “Mafiaøya”
- Persian: “جزیره مافیا”
- Polish: “Mafia”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Mafia”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Mafia”
- Portuguese: “Mafia”
- Russian: “Мафия (остров)”
- Russian: “Мафия”
- Spanish: “Isla de Mafia”
- Spanish: “Mafia”
- Swahili: “Kisiwa cha Mafia”
- Swahili: “Mafia”
- Swedish: “Mafia”
- Swedish: “Mafiaön”
- Thai: “เกาะมาฟีอา”
- Ukrainian: “Мафія”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ مافیا”
- Vietnamese: “Mafia”
- Welsh: “Ynys Mafia”
- Western Mari: “Мафи ошмаоты”
- Western Panjabi: “جزیرہ مافیا”
- Zulu: “Mafia Island”
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