Malacca
Malacca City is a city and the capital of the state of Malacca, Malaysia. Malacca is a vibrant old city with a unique historical and cultural background. The city centre is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with George Town, Penang.
- Type: City with 454,000 residents
- Description: state capital of Malacca, Malaysia
- Also known as: “Bandar Melaka”, “Bandar Raya Melaka”, “Malacca City”, “Malacca Town”, “Melacca Town”, “Melaka City”, “Melakka”, “מאלאקה”, “مەلاکا”, “मलाका शहर”, “เมอลากา”, “믈레카”, “满剌加市”, “馬六甲城”, and “马六甲”
Photo: Adiput, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights: A Famosa Fortress and Stadthuys.
A Famosa Fortress
Castle
Melaka Sultanate Palace Museum
Museum
Photo: Adiput, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Portuguese Settlement and Morten Village.
Malacca
- Categories: administrative territorial entity, city of Malaysia, and locality
- Location: Melaka Tengah District, Malacca, West Coast, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
2.1943° or 2° 11′ 39″ north
Longitude
102.2487° or 102° 14′ 55″ east
Population
454,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Open location code
6PJ456VX+PF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Malacca” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Banda Melaka”
- Amharic: “ማላካ”
- Arabic: “مدينة ملقا”
- Arabic: “ملقا”
- Aragonese: “Malacca City”
- Armenian: “Մալակկա”
- Asturian: “Malacca”
- Azerbaijani: “Malakka şəhəri”
- Azerbaijani: “Malakka”
- Balinese: “Kota Malaka”
- Banjar: “Kuta Malaka, Malaysia”
- Banjar: “Kuta Malaka”
- Belarusian: “Малака”
- Belarusian: “Малакка”
- Bengali: “মালাক্কা”
- Bengali: “ম্যালাক্কা”
- Bulgarian: “Малака”
- Burmese: “မလက်ကာမြို့”
- Catalan: “Malaca”
- Catalan: “Malacca”
- Cebuano: “Malacca”
- Central Kurdish: “شاری مەلاکا”
- Chinese: “馬六甲市”
- Chinese: “马六甲市”
- Chinese: “麻六甲市”
- Croatian: “Melaka”
- Czech: “Malakka”
- Danish: “Malacca”
- Dutch: “Malakka-Stad”
- Dutch: “Malakka”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه ملقا”
- Esperanto: “Malako”
- Estonian: “Melaka”
- Finnish: “Malacca”
- Finnish: “Malakka”
- French: “Malacca-Ville”
- French: “Malacca”
- French: “Malaka”
- French: “Melaka”
- Galician: “Malaca”
- Georgian: “მალაკა”
- German: “Malakka-Stadt”
- German: “Malakka”
- Greek: “Πόλη της Μαλάκκας”
- Gujarati: “મલાકા શહેર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Mâ-liuk-kap Sṳ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Malacca Sṳ”
- Hausa: “Malakka”
- Hebrew: “מלאקה”
- Hindi: “बंदर मेलाका”
- Hindi: “मलक्का”
- Hindi: “मलैका”
- Hungarian: “Melaka”
- Ido: “Malaka”
- Indonesian: “Kota Melaka”
- Indonesian: “Melaka”
- Italian: “Malacca”
- Japanese: “マラッカ”
- Japanese: “ムラカ”
- Javanese: “Malakka”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Bandaraya Melaka”
- Kannada: “ಮಲಾಕ ನಗರ”
- Kannada: “ಮೆಲಕ್ಕ”
- Kazakh: “Малакка”
- Kirghiz: “Малакка”
- Komering: “Kota Malaka”
- Korean: “말라카”
- Korean: “믈라카”
- Latin: “Malacca”
- Latvian: “Melaka”
- Lithuanian: “Malaka”
- Luxembourgish: “Malakka”
- Macedonian: “Малака”
- Maithili: “मलाका सिटी”
- Malay: “Bandaraya Melaka”
- Malay: “Melaka”
- Malayalam: “മലാക്കാ സിറ്റി”
- Maltese: “Malacca”
- Marathi: “मलक्का शहर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Má-la̍k-kah Chhī”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Melaka Chhī”
- Nepali: “मलाका सहर”
- Nepali: “मलाका सिटी”
- Northern Frisian: “Melaka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Malakka”
- Norwegian: “Malakka”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Malaca”
- Oromo: “Malakka”
- Ossetian: “Малаккæ (сахар)”
- Ossetian: “Малаккæ”
- Panjabi: “ਮਲਾਕਾ”
- Persian: “ملاکا”
- Polish: “Malakka-Miasto”
- Polish: “Malakka”
- Portuguese: “Malaca”
- Portuguese: “Malacca-Cidade”
- Pushto: “ملقا”
- Romanian: “Malacca, Malaysia”
- Romanian: “Malacca”
- Russian: “Малакка”
- Scots: “Malacca Ceety”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Malakka”
- Silesian: “Malakka”
- Sinhala: “මලක්කා”
- Slovak: “Melaka”
- Slovenian: “Melaka”
- Somali: “Malakka”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Melaka”
- Spanish: “Malaca”
- Swahili: “Malakka”
- Swedish: “Malacka”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Malacca”
- Tajik: “Малакка”
- Tamil: “மலாக்கா மாநகரம்”
- Tatar: “Malakka”
- Tatar: “Малакка шәһәре”
- Telugu: “మలాక్కా నగరం”
- Thai: “มะละกา”
- Turkish: “Malakka”
- Ukrainian: “Малакка”
- Urdu: “ملاکا شہر”
- Urdu: “ملاکا”
- Uzbek: “Malakka”
- Vietnamese: “Malacca”
- Waray (Philippines): “Malacca”
- Welsh: “Dinas Melaka”
- Western Panjabi: “ملاکا شہر”
- Wu Chinese: “马六甲市”
- Yue Chinese: “馬六甲市”
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