Malvan
Malvan is a fishing port town of 19,000 people in the Konkan region of Maharashtra. Malvan has a very nice sea-shore. But it is mainly known for famous Sindhudurg fort. Maratha king Shri Shivaji Maharaj built this fort on island of Kurte.
- Type: Town with 18,900 residents
- Description: town in Sindhudurg district, Konkan division, Maharashtra, India
- Also known as: “Melundy”
Malvan
- Category: locality
- Location: Malwan, Sindhudurg, South Konkan, Maharashtra, Western India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
16.0606° or 16° 3′ 38″ north
Longitude
73.467° or 73° 28′ 1″ east
Population
18,900
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IN MLW
Open location code
7J8M3F68+7Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Vietnamese—“Malvan” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “মালওয়ান”
- Bishnupriya: “মালৱান”
- Cebuano: “Mālvan”
- Chinese: “馬爾萬”
- Chinese: “马尔万”
- Dutch: “Malwan”
- German: “Malvan (Indien)”
- German: “Malvan”
- Hebrew: “נפת מלוואן”
- Hindi: “मालवण”
- Hindi: “मालवन”
- Italian: “Malwan”
- Kannada: “ಮಾಳವನ್”
- Malay: “Malwan”
- Marathi: “मालवण”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Malwan”
- Newari: “मल्वान”
- Portuguese: “Malvan”
- Portuguese: “Malwan”
- Russian: “Малван”
- Spanish: “Malwan”
- Swedish: “Mālvan”
- Tamil: “மால்வான்”
- Urdu: “مالون”
- Urdu: “ملوان”
- Vietnamese: “Malwan”
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