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Southern Malawi
Mangochi District

Mangochi

Mangochi is a township in the of . Located near the southern end of , in colonial times it used to be called Fort Johnston. As of 2018, it has a population of 53,498.
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  • Type: Town with 51,400 residents
  • Description: city in Mangochi District, Malawi
  • Also known as: “Fort Johnston”, “Mangoche”, and “Mponda”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mangochi Airport.

Aerodrome
was an airport that used to serve the town of Mangochi in , .

Mangochi

Latitude
-14.4805° or 14° 28′ 50″ south
Longitude
35.2606° or 35° 15′ 38″ east
Population
51,400
Elevation
484 metres (1,588 feet)
IATA airport code
MAI
United Nations Location Code
MW MAI
Open location code
5GQQG796+Q6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 264185575
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
927246
Wiki­data ID
Q1890257
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Satellite Map

Discover Mangochi from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mangochi” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mangochi”
  • Arabic: “مانغوتشي”
  • Asturian: “Mangochi”
  • Cebuano: “Mangochi”
  • Chinese: “曼戈切”
  • Chinese: “曼戈奇”
  • Dutch: “Mangochi”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مانجوتشى”
  • Finnish: “Mangochi”
  • French: “Mangochi”
  • German: “Mangochi”
  • German: “MW-MG”
  • Hebrew: “מנגוצ’י”
  • Italian: “Fort Johnston (Malawi)”
  • Italian: “Mangochi”
  • Japanese: “マンゴチ”
  • Lithuanian: “Mangočis”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mangochi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mangochi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mangochi”
  • Nyanja: “Mangochi”
  • Persian: “مانگوچی”
  • Polish: “Mangochi”
  • Portuguese: “Mangochi”
  • Romanian: “Mangochi”
  • Russian: “Мангоче”
  • Russian: “Мангочи”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مانقوچی”
  • Spanish: “Mangochi”
  • Swahili: “Mangochi”
  • Swedish: “Mangochi”
  • Turkish: “Mangochi, Malavi”
  • Turkish: “Mangochi”
  • Ukrainian: “Мангочі”
  • Ukrainian: “Форт Джонстон (Малаві)”
  • Zulu: “Mangochi”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mangochi”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.