Mahajanga

Mahajangā is a city and an administrative district on the northwest coast of . The city of Mahajanga is the capital of the Region. The district had a population of 258,068 in 2020.
  • City with 246,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 20 metres (66 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code MJN
  • …is also known as “Majunga”
  • Description: port city on the northwest coast of Madagascar

Mahajanga

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Latitude
-15.7181° or 15° 43′ 5″ south
Longitude
46.3173° or 46° 19′ 2″ east
UN/LOCODE
MG MJN
Open location code
5HP878J8+PW
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Mahajanga” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ማሃጃንጋ”
  • Arabic: “ماجنكا”
  • Arabic: “ماهاجانجا”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mahajanga”
  • Basque: “Mahajanga”
  • Belarusian: “Махадзанга”
  • Bengali: “মহাজঙ্গা”
  • Bengali: “মাহাজাঙ্গা”
  • Bulgarian: “Махаджанга”
  • Catalan: “Mahajanga”
  • Cebuano: “Mahajanga”
  • Chinese: “馬哈席加”
  • Chinese: “馬哈贊加”
  • Chinese: “马任加”
  • Chinese: “马哈赞加”
  • Croatian: “Mahajanga”
  • Czech: “Mahajanga”
  • Czech: “Majunga”
  • Danish: “Mahajanga”
  • Danish: “Majunga”
  • Dutch: “Mahajanga”
  • Dutch: “Majunga”
  • Dutch: “Massali”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماهاجانجا”
  • Esperanto: “Mahajanga”
  • Finnish: “Mahajanga”
  • French: “Mahajanga”
  • French: “Majunga”
  • Georgian: “მაჰაძანგა”
  • German: “Mahajanga”
  • German: “Majunga”
  • Greek: “Μαχατζάνγκα”
  • Gujarati: “મહાજાંગા”
  • Hausa: “Mahajanga”
  • Hebrew: “מאהאז’אנגה”
  • Hebrew: “מאהאזאנגה”
  • Hindi: “महाजंगा”
  • Indonesian: “Mahajanga”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Mahajanga I”
  • Italian: “Mahajanga”
  • Italian: “Majunga”
  • Japanese: “マジュンガ”
  • Japanese: “マハザンガ”
  • Japanese: “マハジャンガ”
  • Javanese: “Mahajanga”
  • Kalaallisut: “Mahajanga”
  • Kannada: “ಮಹಾಜಂಗ”
  • Kazakh: “Махаджанга”
  • Kirghiz: “Махаджанга”
  • Korean: “마중가”
  • Korean: “마하장가”
  • Latvian: “Mahadzanga”
  • Lithuanian: “Mahadzanga”
  • Malagasy: “Mahajanga”
  • Malagasy: “Majunga”
  • Malay: “Mahajanga”
  • Maori: “Mahajanga”
  • Marathi: “महाजनगा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mahajanga”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mahajanga”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Majunga”
  • Norwegian: “Mahajanga”
  • Oromo: “Mahajanga”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਹਾਜੰਗਾ”
  • Persian: “ماهاجانگا”
  • Polish: “Mahajanga”
  • Polish: “Majunga”
  • Portuguese: “Mahajanga”
  • Pushto: “ماهاجنګا”
  • Romanian: “Mahajanga”
  • Russian: “Махадзанга”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mahajanga”
  • Shona: “Mahajanga”
  • Sinhala: “මහජන්ගා”
  • Slovenian: “Mahajanga”
  • Somali: “Mahajanga”
  • Spanish: “Mahajanga”
  • Swahili: “Mahajanga”
  • Swedish: “Mahajanga”
  • Swedish: “Majunga”
  • Tajik: “Махаджанга”
  • Tamil: “மகாஜங்கா”
  • Tatar: “Махаджанга”
  • Telugu: “మహాజంగా”
  • Thai: “มาฮาชองกา”
  • Turkish: “Mahajanga”
  • Ukrainian: “Махадзанга”
  • Urdu: “ماہاجانگا”
  • Urdu: “ماہاجنگا”
  • Uzbek: “Mahajanga”
  • Vietnamese: “Mahajanga”
  • Wu Chinese: “馬哈贊加”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬哈贊加”
  • Zulu: “Mahajanga”

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