Malindi

Malindi and Watamu villages are known for their wonderful Indian Ocean beaches, which are among the best and most picturesque in Kenya.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Malindi Airport and Malindi Museum.

Aerodrome
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Malindi International Airport is an airport in . It serves the coastal towns of Malindi, , , and the greater northern coast tourism circuit.

Museum
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is a located in Malindi, . It has control over four main heritage sites: The Vasco da Gama Pillar, The Portuguese Chapel, The House of Columns and The Heritage Complex museum.

Malindi

Latitude
-3.2185° or 3° 13′ 7″ south
Longitude
40.1113° or 40° 6′ 41″ east
Population
120,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
MYD
United Nations Location Code
KE MYD
Open location code
6H82Q4J6+JG
Open­Street­Map ID
way 497879072
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
187968
Wiki­data ID
Q271411
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Malindi” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Malindi”
  • Arabic: “ماليندي”
  • Armenian: “Մալինդի”
  • Asturian: “Malindi”
  • Basque: “Malindi”
  • Bavarian: “Malindi”
  • Bengali: “মালিনডি”
  • Catalan: “Malindi”
  • Catalan: “Melinde”
  • Cebuano: “Malindi”
  • Chinese: “馬林迪”
  • Chinese: “马林迪”
  • Chinese: “麻林地”
  • Czech: “Malindi”
  • Danish: “Malindi”
  • Dutch: “Malindi”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماليندى”
  • Esperanto: “Malindi”
  • Estonian: “Malindi”
  • Estonian: “Melinde”
  • Finnish: “Malindi”
  • French: “Malindi”
  • French: “Mélinde”
  • Galician: “Melinde”
  • Georgian: “მალინდი”
  • German: “Malindi”
  • German: “Melinde”
  • Greek: “Μαλίντι”
  • Gujarati: “માલિન્દી”
  • Hausa: “Malindi”
  • Hindi: “मलिंदी”
  • Hungarian: “Malindi”
  • Indonesian: “Malindi”
  • Irish: “Malindi”
  • Italian: “Malindi”
  • Japanese: “マリンディ”
  • Japanese: “麻林”
  • Kannada: “ಮಲಿಂಡಿ”
  • Kikuyu: “Malindi”
  • Korean: “말린디”
  • Latvian: “Malindi”
  • Lithuanian: “Malindis”
  • Malagasy: “Malindi”
  • Malay: “Malindi”
  • Marathi: “मालिंदी”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Malindi”
  • Norwegian: “Malindi”
  • Persian: “مالیندی، کنیا”
  • Persian: “مالیندی”
  • Polish: “Malindi”
  • Portuguese: “Malinde”
  • Portuguese: “Malindi”
  • Portuguese: “Melinde”
  • Romanian: “Malindi”
  • Russian: “Malindi”
  • Russian: “Melinde”
  • Russian: “Малинди”
  • Scots: “Malindi”
  • Serbian: “Malindi”
  • Serbian: “Малинди”
  • Silesian: “Malindi”
  • Sinhala: “මලින්ඩි”
  • Slovak: “Malindi”
  • Slovenian: “Malindi”
  • Slovenian: “Melinde”
  • Somali: “Malindi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مالیندی، کنیا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مالیندی”
  • Spanish: “Malindi”
  • Swahili: “Malindi”
  • Swedish: “Malindi”
  • Tagalog: “Malindi”
  • Tamil: “மாலிண்டி”
  • Telugu: “మిలిందీ”
  • Thai: “มาลินดี”
  • Tumbuka: “Malindi, Kenya”
  • Turkish: “Malindi”
  • Ukrainian: “Малінді”
  • Urdu: “مالیندی”
  • Vietnamese: “Malindi”
  • Zulu: “Malindi, Khenya”
  • Zulu: “Malindi”
  • “Malìndi”

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