Mahajanga
Mahajangā is a city and an administrative district on the northwest coast of Madagascar. The city of Mahajanga is the capital of the Boeny Region. The district had a population of 258,068 in 2020.
- Type: City with 246,000 residents
- Description: port city on the northwest coast of Madagascar
- Also known as: “Majunga”
Mahajanga
- Categories: commune of Madagascar and locality
- Location: Boeny, Mahajanga Province, Madagascar, East African Islands, Africa
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Latitude
-15.7181° or 15° 43′ 5″ south
Longitude
46.3173° or 46° 19′ 2″ east
Population
246,000
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
IATA airport code
MJN
United Nations Location Code
MG MJN
Open location code
5HP878J8+PW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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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”
- “Mahajanga”
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