Malindi
Malindi and Watamu villages are known for their wonderful Indian Ocean beaches, which are among the best and most picturesque in Kenya.
- Type: City with 120,000 residents
- Description: city in Kenya
- Also known as: “Malinde”, “Mélinde”, “麻林”, and “麻林地”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Malindi Airport and Malindi Museum.
Malindi
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kilifi County, Coastal Kenya, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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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
UN/LOCODE
KE MYD
Open location code
6H82Q4J6+JG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- Cebuano: “Malindi”
- Chinese: “馬林迪”
- Chinese: “马林迪”
- Czech: “Malindi”
- Danish: “Malindi”
- Dutch: “Malindi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماليندى”
- Emilian: “Malìndi”
- Esperanto: “Malindi”
- Estonian: “Malindi”
- Finnish: “Malindi”
- French: “Malindi”
- Galician: “Melinde”
- Georgian: “მალინდი”
- German: “Malindi”
- Greek: “Μαλίντι”
- Gujarati: “માલિન્દી”
- Hausa: “Malindi”
- Hindi: “मलिंदी”
- Hungarian: “Malindi”
- Indonesian: “Malindi”
- Irish: “Malindi”
- Italian: “Malindi”
- Japanese: “マリンディ”
- 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: “Melinde”
- Romanian: “Malindi”
- Russian: “Малинди”
- Scots: “Malindi”
- Serbian: “Malindi”
- Serbian: “Малинди”
- Silesian: “Malindi”
- Sinhala: “මලින්ඩි”
- Slovak: “Malindi”
- Slovenian: “Malindi”
- 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”
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