Malawi

Malawi is a small, landlocked country in whose eastern border mostly follows Lake Malawi, the third largest lake on the continent. It's described as the "Warm Heart of Africa", referring to the friendliness of the people.
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is the capital of Malawi.
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is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce…
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is a small town in Malawi about 1 hr from Blantyre.

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is the southern most region of Malawi…
lies on the southern part of the…
lies to the west of the northern half of Lake Malawi.

Malawi

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Latitude of center
-13.3255° or 13° 19′ 32″ south
Longitude of center
34.0137° or 34° 0′ 49″ east
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424311645
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
927384
Wiki­data ID
Q1020

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Malawi” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ареспублика Малави”
  • Abkhazian: “Малави”
  • Achinese: “Malawi”
  • Afrikaans: “Malawi”
  • Akan: “Malawi”
  • Albanian: “Malavi”
  • Albanian: “Malevia”
  • Amharic: “ማላዊ”
  • Amis: “Malawi”
  • Angika: “मालावी”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية مالاوي”
  • Arabic: “مالاوي”
  • Arabic: “ملاوي”
  • Aragonese: “Malaui”
  • Aragonese: “Malawi”
  • Armenian: “Մալավի”
  • Arpitan: “Malavi”
  • Assamese: “মালাৱি”
  • Asturian: “Malaui”
  • Atayal: “Malawi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Malavi”
  • Balinese: “Malawi”
  • Bambara: “Malawi”
  • Banjar: “Malawi”
  • Bashkir: “Малави”
  • Basque: “Malawi”
  • Bavarian: “Malawi”
  • Belarusian: “Малаві”
  • Bengali: “মালাউই”
  • Betawi: “Malawi”
  • Bhojpuri: “मलावी रिपब्लिक”
  • Bhojpuri: “मलावी”
  • Bhojpuri: “रिपब्लिक ऑफ मलावी”
  • Bishnupriya: “মালাবি”
  • Bislama: “Malawi”
  • Bosnian: “Malavi”
  • Breton: “Malawi”
  • Bulgarian: “Малави”
  • Burmese: “မာလဝီနိုင်ငံ”
  • Burmese: “မာလာဝီ”
  • Catalan: “Malawi”
  • Catalan: “República de Malawi”
  • Cebuano: “Malawi”
  • Central Bikol: “Malawi”
  • Central Kanuri: “Malawi”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆماری مالاوی”
  • Central Kurdish: “مالاوی”
  • Chavacano: “Malawi”
  • Chechen: “Малави”
  • Cheyenne: “Malawi”
  • Chinese: “Mǎlāwéi”
  • Chinese: “馬拉威”
  • Chinese: “馬拉維”
  • Chinese: “马拉维 / 馬拉威”
  • Chinese: “马拉维”
  • Chinese: “马拉维共和国”
  • Chuvash: “Малави”
  • Cornish: “Malawi”
  • Corsican: “Malaui”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Malavi”
  • Croatian: “Malavi”
  • Czech: “Malawi”
  • Czech: “Ňasko”
  • Dagbani: “Malawi”
  • Danish: “Malawi”
  • Dhivehi: “މަލާވީ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Malawi”
  • Dotyali: “मलावी”
  • Dutch: “Malawi”
  • Dutch: “MW”
  • Dutch: “MWI”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Malawi”
  • Dzongkha: “མ་ལ་ཝི། Malawi”
  • Dzongkha: “མ་ལ་ཝི།”
  • Eastern Mari: “Малави”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مالاوى”
  • Esperanto: “Malavio”
  • Esperanto: “MW”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Malavio”
  • Estonian: “Malawi Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Malawi”
  • Ewe: “Malawi nutome”
  • Ewe: “Malawi”
  • Extremaduran: “Malaui”
  • Farefare: “Malawi”
  • Faroese: “Malavi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Malawi”
  • Finnish: “Malawi”
  • Finnish: “Malawin tasavalta”
  • French: “la République du Malawi”
  • French: “Malawi”
  • French: “MW”
  • French: “République du Malawi”
  • Fulah: “Malaawi”
  • Fulah: “Malawi”
  • Gagauz: “Malavi”
  • Galician: “Malaui”
  • Galician: “Malawi”
  • Ganda: “Malawi”
  • Georgian: “მალავი”
  • German: “Malawi”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Malawi”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Malawi”
  • Gilaki: “مالاوي”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία του Μαλάουι”
  • Greek: “Μαλάουι”
  • Guarani: “Maláui”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Malawi”
  • Gujarati: “માલાવી”
  • Haitian: “Malawi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Malawi”
  • Hausa: “Malawi”
  • Hebrew: “מלאווי”
  • Hindi: “मलावी गणराज्य”
  • Hindi: “मलावी”
  • Hungarian: “Malawi Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Malawi”
  • Icelandic: “Malaví”
  • Ido: “Malawi”
  • Igbo: “Malawi”
  • Iloko: “Malawi”
  • Inari Sami: “Malawi täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Malawi”
  • Indonesian: “Malawi”
  • Interlingua: “Malawi”
  • Interlingue: “Malawi”
  • Irish: “An Mhaláiv”
  • Italian: “Malawi”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Malaawi”
  • Japanese: “マラウィ”
  • Japanese: “マラウイ”
  • Japanese: “マラウイ共和国”
  • Javanese: “Malawi”
  • Kabiyè: “Malawii”
  • Kabyle: “Malawi”
  • Kalaallisut: “Malawi”
  • Kalmyk: “Малавудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಮಲಾವಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Malavi”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Малави”
  • Karekare: “Malawi”
  • Kashmiri: “مَلاوی”
  • Kashmiri: “मलावी”
  • Kazakh: “Малави Республикасы”
  • Kazakh: “Малави”
  • Khmer: “ម៉ាឡាវី”
  • Kikuyu: “Malawi”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Malawi”
  • Kirghiz: “Малави”
  • Kongo: “Malawi”
  • Korean: “말라위”
  • Kotava: “Malawia”
  • Kurdish: “Malavî”
  • Kurdish: “Malawî”
  • Kurdish: “مالاوی”
  • Ladin: “Malaui”
  • Ladino: “Malawi”
  • Lao: “ມາລາວີ”
  • Latgalian: “Malaveja”
  • Latin: “Malavia”
  • Latin: “Malavium”
  • Latvian: “Malāvija”
  • Lezghian: “Мала́ви Респу́блика”
  • Lezghian: “Малави”
  • Ligurian: “Malawi”
  • Limburgan: “Malawi”
  • Lingala: “Malawi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Malaui”
  • Literary Chinese: “馬拉威”
  • Lithuanian: “Malavis”
  • Livvi: “Malavi”
  • Lombard: “Malawi”
  • Low German: “Malawi”
  • Low German: “Republik Malawi”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Malawi”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Malawi”
  • Luxembourgish: “Malawi”
  • Macedonian: “Малави”
  • Maithili: “मलावी”
  • Malagasy: “Malaoì”
  • Malagasy: “Malaoỳ”
  • Malagasy: “Malawi”
  • Malay: “Malawi”
  • Malayalam: “മലാവി”
  • Maltese: “il-Malawi”
  • Maltese: “Malawi”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Malawi”
  • Manipuri: “ꯃꯥꯂꯥꯋꯤ”
  • Manx: “Malawi”
  • Maori: “Marāwi”
  • Marathi: “मलावी”
  • Mazanderani: “مالاوی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Malawi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Malawi”
  • Minangkabau: “Malawi”
  • Mingrelian: “მალავი”
  • Mirandese: “Malaui”
  • Moksha: “Малави”
  • Mongolian: “Малави”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مالاوي”
  • Mossi: “Malawi”
  • Mossi: “MW”
  • Mossi: “MWI”
  • Nauru: “Malawi”
  • Navajo: “Kiniikǫʼí Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “मालावी”
  • Newari: “मलावी”
  • North Ndebele: “Malawi”
  • Northern Frisian: “Malaawi”
  • Northern Sami: “Malawi dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Malawi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Malawi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Malawi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Malawi”
  • Norwegian: “Malawi”
  • Novial: “Malawi”
  • Nyanja: “Malaŵi”
  • Obolo: “Malawi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Malawi”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Malawi”
  • Oriya: “ମଲାବୀ”
  • Oriya: “ମାଲୱି”
  • Oromo: “Maalaawii”
  • Oromo: “Maalaawwii”
  • Ossetian: “Малави”
  • Pali: “मलावी”
  • Pampanga: “Malawi”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਲਾਵੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Malawi”
  • Pedi: “Malawi”
  • Persian: “مالاوی”
  • Piemontese: “Malawi”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Malaawi”
  • Polish: “Malawi”
  • Portuguese: “Maláui”
  • Portuguese: “Malávi”
  • Portuguese: “Malawi”
  • Portuguese: “República do Malawi”
  • Pushto: “مالاوي”
  • Quechua: “Malawi”
  • Romanian: “Malawi”
  • Romansh: “Malawi”
  • Rundi: “Malawi”
  • Russia Buriat: “Малави”
  • Russian: “Малави”
  • Russian: “Республика Малави”
  • Sakizaya: “Malawi”
  • Samoan: “Malawi”
  • Samogitian: “Malavis”
  • Sango: “Malawïi”
  • Sanskrit: “मलावी”
  • Sardinian: “Malawi”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Malawi”
  • Scots: “Malawi”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Malabhaidh”
  • Serbian: “Malavi”
  • Serbian: “Малави”
  • Serbian: “Република Малави”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Malavi”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းမႃႇလႃႇဝီႇ”
  • Shona: “Malawi”
  • Sicilian: “Malaui”
  • Silesian: “Malawi”
  • Sindhi: “مالاوي”
  • Sindhi: “ملاوي”
  • Sinhala: “මලාවි”
  • Skolt Sami: “Malaaw tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Malaaw”
  • Slovak: “Malawi”
  • Slovak: “Malawijská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Malavi”
  • Slovenian: “MAW”
  • Slovenian: “mw”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Malavi”
  • Somali: “Malaawi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مالاوی”
  • South Ndebele: “Malawi”
  • Southern Sotho: “Malaŵi”
  • Spanish: “Malaui”
  • Spanish: “Malawi”
  • Spanish: “República de Malaui”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵎⴰⵍⴰⵡⵉ”
  • Sundanese: “Malawi”
  • Swahili: “Malawi”
  • Swati: “IMalawi”
  • Swedish: “Malawi”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Malawi”
  • Swiss German: “Malawi”
  • Sylheti: “ꠝꠣꠟꠣꠅꠤ”
  • Tagalog: “Malawi”
  • Tajik: “Малави”
  • Tajik: “Моловӣ”
  • Talysh: “Malavi”
  • Tamil: “மாலவி”
  • Taroko: “Malawi”
  • Tatar: “Малави”
  • Telugu: “మలావీ”
  • Thai: “ประเทศมาลาวี”
  • Thai: “มาลาวี”
  • Tibetan: “མཱ་ལཱ་ཝི།”
  • Tigrinya: “ማላዊ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Malaui”
  • Tsonga: “Malawi”
  • Tswana: “Malawi”
  • Tumbuka: “Malaŵi”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “مالاوي”
  • Turkish: “Malavi”
  • Turkmen: “Malawi”
  • Twi: “Malawi”
  • Tyap: “Malawi”
  • Udmurt: “Малави”
  • Uighur: “مالاۋى”
  • Ukrainian: “Малаві”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Малаві”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Malawi”
  • Urdu: “ملاوی”
  • Uzbek: “Malavi”
  • Venetian: “Małaui”
  • Venetian: “Malawi”
  • Veps: “Malavi”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Malawi”
  • Vietnamese: “Ma-la-uy (Malawi)”
  • Vietnamese: “Ma-la-uy”
  • Vietnamese: “Malawi”
  • Vlaams: “Malawi”
  • Vlax Romani: “Malawi”
  • Volapük: “Malaviyän”
  • Võro: “Malawi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Malawi”
  • Welsh: “Malawi”
  • Western Frisian: “Malawi”
  • Western Frisian: “Malawy”
  • Western Panjabi: “ملاوی”
  • Wolof: “Malawi”
  • Wu Chinese: “馬拉維”
  • Xhosa: “Malawi”
  • Yakut: “Малауи”
  • Yiddish: “מאַלאַווי”
  • Yoruba: “Màláwì”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬拉維”
  • Zeeuws: “Malawi”
  • Zhuang: “Malawi”
  • Zulu: “IMalawi”
  • “ma Malawi”
  • “Malahui”

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