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, Nicaragua”

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.

Stadium
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is located in Managua, . It has a capacity of 15,000 seated spectators. The stadium was built in 2017 as the Estadio Nacional Dennis Martínez, named after former Major League Baseball player Dennis Martínez…

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
12.1544° or 12° 9′ 16″ north
Longitude
-86.2738° or 86° 16′ 26″ west
Population
1,030,000
Elevation
108 metres (354 feet)
IATA airport code
MGA
United Nations Location Code
NI MGA
Open location code
764M5P3G+QF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 175699213
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”
  • Bavarian: “Managua”
  • Belarusian: “Манагуа”
  • Bengali: “মানাগুয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Managua”
  • Breton: “Managua”
  • Bulgarian: “Манагуа”
  • Catalan: “Managua”
  • Cebuano: “Managua (ulohang dakbayan sa Nicaragua)”
  • Cebuano: “Managua”
  • Chechen: “Манагуа”
  • Chinese: “Managua”
  • Chinese: “馬拿瓜”
  • Chinese: “馬納瓜”
  • Chinese: “馬那瓜”
  • Chinese: “马那瓜”
  • Croatian: “Managua”
  • Czech: “Managua”
  • Danish: “Managua”
  • Dutch: “Managua”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماناجوا”
  • Esperanto: “Managvo”
  • Estonian: “Managua”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Managua”
  • Finnish: “Managua”
  • French: “Managua”
  • Galician: “Managua”
  • Georgian: “მანაგუა”
  • German: “Managua”
  • 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: “Managua”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Managua”
  • Japanese: “マナグア”
  • 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: “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: “Managua”
  • Portuguese: “Manágua”
  • Quechua: “Managua”
  • Romanian: “Managua”
  • Russian: “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”
  • Swahili: “Managua”
  • 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: “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”
  • “Mānāhuac”

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