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Malakal

Malakal was a city in . Largely destroyed during fighting between 2011-2015, relatively little remains other than looted and vandalised ruins, very limited infrastructure and a 45,000 person strong United Nations refugee camp northeast of the former city.
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Malakal

Latitude
9.5388° or 9° 32′ 20″ north
Longitude
31.6584° or 31° 39′ 30″ east
Population
147,000
Elevation
400 metres (1,312 feet)
IATA airport code
MAK
United Nations Location Code
SS MAK
Open location code
6GXHGMQ5+G9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 210414793
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
370737
Wiki­data ID
Q220049
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Malakal” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ملكال”
  • Armenian: “Մալակալ”
  • Asturian: “Malakal”
  • Bengali: “মালাকাল”
  • Bulgarian: “Малакал”
  • Catalan: “Malakal”
  • Cebuano: “Malakal”
  • Chinese: “馬拉卡勒”
  • Chinese: “馬拉卡爾”
  • Chinese: “马拉卡勒”
  • Croatian: “Malakal”
  • Czech: “Malakal”
  • Czech: “Malakál”
  • Danish: “Malakal”
  • Dutch: “Malakal”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ملكال”
  • Esperanto: “Malakal”
  • Estonian: “Malakal”
  • Estonian: “Malakāl”
  • Finnish: “Malakal”
  • French: “Malakal”
  • Galician: “Malakal”
  • Georgian: “მალაკალი”
  • German: “Malakal”
  • Greek: “Μαλακάλ”
  • Gujarati: “મલાકાલ”
  • Hebrew: “מלאקל”
  • Hebrew: “מלקאל”
  • Hindi: “मलकल”
  • Indonesian: “Malakal”
  • Irish: “Malakal”
  • Italian: “Malakal”
  • Japanese: “マラカル”
  • Kannada: “ಮಲಕಲ್”
  • Korean: “말라칼”
  • Latvian: “Malakala”
  • Lithuanian: “Malakalis”
  • Malay: “Malakal”
  • Marathi: “मलाकल”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Malakal”
  • Norwegian: “Malakal”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Malakal”
  • Pampanga: “Malakal”
  • Persian: “مالاکال”
  • Persian: “ملکال”
  • Polish: “Malakal”
  • Portuguese: “Malacal”
  • Portuguese: “Malakal”
  • Romanian: “Malakal”
  • Russian: “Малакал”
  • Russian: “Малакаль”
  • Scots: “Malakal”
  • Serbian: “Malakal”
  • Serbian: “Малакал”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Malakal”
  • Sinhala: “මලකල්”
  • Slovenian: “Malakal”
  • Spanish: “Malakal”
  • Swahili: “Malakal, Sudan Kusini”
  • Swedish: “Malakal”
  • Tamil: “மலாக்கள்”
  • Telugu: “మలకాల్”
  • Thai: “มาลากาล”
  • Thai: “มาลากุล”
  • Turkish: “Malakal”
  • Ukrainian: “Малакал”
  • Ukrainian: “Малакаль”
  • Urdu: “ملکال”
  • Venetian: “Malakal”
  • Vietnamese: “Malakal”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Malakal”
  • Zulu: “Malakal”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Malakal”. Photo: USAID Africa Bureau, Public domain.