Nicaragua
Capital Region
Managua Department

Managua

Managua is the capital and largest city of . A city that saw the death of Sandino, the rise of the Somozas, and their fall from power at the hand of the Sandinistas, Managua is full of history and the closest thing to a metropolis Nicaragua has.
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  • Type: City with 1,030,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Nicaragua
  • Also known as: “Managua Municipality”, “Managua, Nicaragua”, and “Municipality of Managua”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Old Cathedral of Managua and Rubén Darío National Theatre.

Church
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The , known as the Catedral de Santiago in Spanish, is a cathedral in Managua, . The Cathedral was designed by Belgian architects.

Theater building
The is the national theatre of . It is located in the capital, Managua, and was named in honor of Nicaragua's most renowned poets, Rubén Darío.

Shopping center
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is a shopping center in Managua, , developed and operated by the Taiwanese company Nica Eastern Development, Inc. The shopping center is home to 65 stores, a food court, a supermarket and a movie theater.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include La Chureca.

Neighborhood
Photo: Gbauluz, CC BY 3.0.
was the municipal domestic and industrial waste-disposal site in Managua, Nicaragua. It was the largest open-air landfill in , covering 7 km2 in the north-western corner of Managua.

Managua

Latitude
12.1547° or 12° 9′ 17″ north
Longitude
-86.2737° or 86° 16′ 25″ west
Population
1,030,000
Elevation
108 metres (354 feet)
IATA airport code
MGA
United Nations Location Code
NI MGA
Open location code
764M5P3G+VG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13230029220
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3617763
Wiki­data ID
Q3274
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Managua” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Managua”
  • Afrikaans: “Managua”
  • Albanian: “Managua”
  • Amharic: “ማናጓ”
  • Arabic: “ماناغوا”
  • Aragonese: “Managua”
  • Armenian: “Մանագուա”
  • Asturian: “Managua”
  • Aymara: “Manawa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Manaqua”
  • Balinese: “Managua”
  • Bashkir: “Манагуа”
  • Basque: “Managua (udalerria)”
  • Basque: “Managua”
  • Basque: “Managuako udalerria”
  • Bavarian: “Managua”
  • Belarusian: “Манагуа”
  • Bengali: “মানাগুয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Managua”
  • Breton: “Managua”
  • Bulgarian: “Манагуа”
  • Catalan: “Managua”
  • Cebuano: “Managua (ulohang dakbayan sa Nicaragua)”
  • Cebuano: “Managua nga Munisipyo”
  • Cebuano: “Managua”
  • Cebuano: “Munisipyo sa Managua”
  • Chechen: “Манагуа”
  • Chinese: “Managua”
  • Chinese: “馬拿瓜”
  • Chinese: “馬納瓜（市镇）”
  • Chinese: “馬納瓜”
  • Chinese: “馬納瓜市镇”
  • Chinese: “馬那瓜”
  • Chinese: “马那瓜”
  • Croatian: “Managua”
  • Czech: “Managua”
  • Danish: “Managua”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Managua”
  • Dutch: “Managua (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Managua”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماناجوا”
  • Esperanto: “Managvo”
  • Estonian: “Managua”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Managua”
  • Finnish: “Managua”
  • French: “Managua (municipalité)”
  • French: “Managua”
  • French: “Municipalité de Managua”
  • Galician: “Managua”
  • Georgian: “მანაგუა”
  • German: “Gemeinde Managua”
  • German: “Gemeinde von Managua”
  • German: “Managua (Gemeinde)”
  • German: “Managua”
  • Greek: “Δήμος Μανάγκουα”
  • Greek: “Μανάγκουα (δήμος)”
  • Greek: “Μανάγκουα”
  • Greek: “Μανάγουα”
  • Gujarati: “માનાગુઆ”
  • Haitian: “Managoua”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Managua”
  • Hausa: “Managua”
  • Hebrew: “מנגואה”
  • Hindi: “मनागुआ”
  • Hindi: “मानागुआ”
  • Hungarian: “Managua”
  • Icelandic: “Managva”
  • Ido: “Managua”
  • Inari Sami: “Managua”
  • Indonesian: “Managua”
  • Interlingua: “Managua”
  • Interlingue: “Managua”
  • Irish: “Managua”
  • Italian: “Comune di Managua”
  • Italian: “Managua (comune)”
  • Italian: “Managua”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Managua”
  • Japanese: “マナグア（自治体）”
  • Japanese: “マナグア”
  • Japanese: “マナグア自治体”
  • Kannada: “ಮನಾಗುವಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Манагуа қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Манагуа”
  • Kikuyu: “Managua”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Managua”
  • Kirghiz: “Манагуа”
  • Kongo: “Managua”
  • Korean: “마나과”
  • Kotava: “Managua”
  • Kurdish: “Managwa”
  • Ladino: “Managua”
  • Latin: “Managua”
  • Latvian: “Managva”
  • Ligurian: “Managua”
  • Lithuanian: “Managva”
  • Livvi: “Managua”
  • Lombard: “Managua”
  • Luxembourgish: “Managua”
  • Macedonian: “Манагва”
  • Malay: “Managua”
  • Malayalam: “മനാഗ്വ”
  • Maltese: “Managua”
  • Maltese: “Managwa”
  • Marathi: “मानाग्वा”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Managua”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chhiūⁿ Managua”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Managua chhiūⁿ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Managua”
  • Minangkabau: “Managua”
  • Mingrelian: “მანაგუა”
  • Mirandese: “Ñanágua”
  • Moksha: “Манагуа”
  • Mongolian: “Манагуа”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ماناڭوا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ماناݣوا”
  • Navajo: “Tábąąh Kin Haalʼá”
  • Northern Frisian: “Manaagua”
  • Northern Sami: “Managua”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Managua”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Managua”
  • Norwegian: “Managua”
  • Novial: “Managua”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Managua”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Managburg”
  • Ossetian: “Манагуæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਨਾਗੁਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Managua”
  • Persian: “ماناگوآ”
  • Persian: “ماناگوا”
  • Piemontese: “Managua”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Managua”
  • Polish: “Gmina Managua”
  • Polish: “Managua (gmina)”
  • Polish: “Managua”
  • Portuguese: “Managua (município)”
  • Portuguese: “Manágua”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Managua”
  • Quechua: “Managua”
  • Romanian: “Managua”
  • Russian: “Манагуа (муниципалитет)”
  • Russian: “Манагуа”
  • Russian: “Муниципалитет Манагуа”
  • Sakizaya: “Ma-na-kwa”
  • Sardinian: “Manàgua”
  • Scots: “Managua”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Managua”
  • Serbian: “Манагва”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Managua”
  • Shona: “Managua”
  • Silesian: “Managua”
  • Sindhi: “ماناگوا”
  • Sinhala: “මැනගුවා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Managua”
  • Slovak: “Managua”
  • Slovenian: “Managua”
  • Spanish: “Managua (Municipio)”
  • Spanish: “Managua”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Managua”
  • Swahili: “Managua”
  • Swedish: “Managua (kommun)”
  • Swedish: “Managua kommun”
  • Swedish: “Managua”
  • Swiss German: “Managua”
  • Tagalog: “Managua”
  • Tajik: “Манагуа”
  • Talysh: “Managua”
  • Talysh: “Manaqua”
  • Tamil: “மனாகுவா”
  • Tamil: “மனாக்வா”
  • Tatar: “Манагва”
  • Telugu: “మనాగువా”
  • Thai: “มานากัว”
  • Tibetan: “མ་ན་གུ་འ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Managua”
  • Turkish: “Managua”
  • Turkmen: “Managua”
  • Udmurt: “Манагуа”
  • Uighur: “ماناگۇئا”
  • Ukrainian: “Манагуа”
  • Urdu: “ماناگوا”
  • Uzbek: “Managua”
  • Venetian: “Managua”
  • Veps: “Managua”
  • Vietnamese: “Đô thị Managua”
  • Vietnamese: “Managua (đô thị)”
  • Vietnamese: “Managua”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Managua”
  • Welsh: “Managua”
  • Western Frisian: “Managûa”
  • Western Panjabi: “ماناگوا”
  • Wu Chinese: “马那瓜”
  • Yakut: “Манагуа”
  • Yiddish: “מאנאגוע”
  • Yoruba: “Managua”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬拿瓜”
  • Zulu: “i-Managua”
  • “Managua”
  • “Mānāhuac”

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