Maku
Maku is a city in the Central District of Maku County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Maku is 22 kilometres from the Turkish border in a mountain gorge at an altitude of 1,634 metres.
- Type: Town with 42,200 residents
- Description: city in West Azarbaijan Province, Iran
- Also known as: “Daş Makı”, “Mahku”, “Mahü”, “Makı”, “Makü”, “Maku, Iran”, and “مادکۆ”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Baghcheh Juq and Sangar.
Maku
- Categories: city of Iran and locality
- Location: West Azerbaijan Province, Iranian Azerbaijan, Iran, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
39.291° or 39° 17′ 28″ north
Longitude
44.4521° or 44° 27′ 8″ east
Population
42,200
Elevation
1,304 metres (4,278 feet)
IATA airport code
IMQ
Open location code
8HF67FR2+9V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Western Panjabi—“Maku” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Maku”
- Arabic: “ماكو”
- Armenian: “Մակու”
- Azerbaijani: “Maku”
- Catalan: “Maku”
- Cebuano: “Mākū”
- Central Kurdish: “ماکۆ”
- Chinese: “馬庫”
- Chinese: “马库”
- Dutch: “Maku”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماكو”
- Esperanto: “Mah-Ku”
- Finnish: “Maku”
- French: “Makou”
- French: “Maku”
- German: “Maku”
- Gilaki: “ماکو”
- Greek: “Μάκου”
- Hebrew: “מאכו”
- Hindi: “माकू”
- Hungarian: “Máku”
- Irish: “Maku”
- Italian: “Maku”
- Japanese: “マークー”
- Kurdish: “Mako”
- Kurdish: “Makû”
- Kurdish: “ماکۆ”
- Malagasy: “Maku, Iran”
- Malagasy: “Maku”
- Malay: “Maku, Iran”
- Malay: “Maku”
- Mazanderani: “ماکو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Maku”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Maku”
- Norwegian: “Maku”
- Persian: “Mākū”
- Persian: “شهرستان ماکو”
- Persian: “ماکو”
- Polish: “Maku”
- Portuguese: “Macu”
- Portuguese: “Maku”
- Romanian: “Maku, Iran”
- Romanian: “Maku”
- Russian: “Маку”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Maku”
- South Azerbaijani: “ماکو”
- South Azerbaijani: “ماکی”
- Swedish: “Maku”
- Tajik: “Mokū”
- Tajik: “Мокӯ”
- Thai: “มอคู”
- Turkish: “Maku”
- Ukrainian: “Маку”
- Urdu: “ماکو”
- Western Panjabi: “ماکو”
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