Mao
Mao is a city in Sahelian Chad, the capital of the Kanem Region and the Kanem Department. It is the 16th largest city in Chad, and is located 226 km north-northeast of N'Djamena. The city is ruled by the Sultan of Kanem, the chief of the Kanembou people.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mahmoud Sabir97, CC BY 4.0.
- Type: City with 50,700 residents
- Description: city in Chad
- Also known as: “Mao, Chad”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mao Airport.
Mao
- Category: locality
- Location: Kanem Region, Sahelian Chad, Chad, Sahel, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
14.1234° or 14° 7′ 24″ northLongitude
15.3108° or 15° 18′ 39″ eastPopulation
50,700Elevation
350 metres (1,148 feet)IATA airport code
AMOUnited Nations Location Code
TD AMOOpen location code
7F6Q48F6+98OpenStreetMap ID
node 469211942OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2428394Wikidata ID
Q1786045
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Mao” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مؤ”
- Arabic: “ماو”
- Asturian: “Mao”
- Bengali: “মাও”
- Bulgarian: “Мао”
- Catalan: “Mao”
- Cebuano: “Mao”
- Chinese: “馬奧”
- Chinese: “马奥”
- Danish: “Mao”
- Dutch: “Mao”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماو”
- Finnish: “Mao”
- French: “Mao”
- German: “Mao”
- Greek: “Μάο”
- Gujarati: “માઓ”
- Hausa: “Mao, Chadi”
- Hausa: “Mao”
- Hindi: “मओ, चाड”
- Hindi: “माओ”
- Indonesian: “Mao, Chad”
- Indonesian: “Mao”
- Italian: “Mao”
- Japanese: “マオ”
- Kannada: “ಮಾವೋ”
- Korean: “마오(차드)”
- Korean: “마오”
- Latvian: “Mao”
- Lithuanian: “Mao”
- Malay: “Mao, Chad”
- Malay: “Mao”
- Marathi: “माओ”
- Mongolian: “Мао (Чад)”
- Mongolian: “Мао”
- Northern Frisian: “Mao”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mao”
- Norwegian: “Mao”
- Persian: “مائو، چاد”
- Persian: “مائو”
- Polish: “Mao”
- Portuguese: “Mao”
- Romanian: “Mao, Ciad”
- Romanian: “Mao”
- Russian: “Мао (Чад)”
- Russian: “Мао”
- Sinhala: “මාඕ”
- Slovenian: “Mao”
- Spanish: “Mao (Chad)”
- Spanish: “Mao”
- Swahili: “Mao”
- Swedish: “Mao”
- Tagalog: “Mao, Chad”
- Tagalog: “Mao”
- Tamil: “மாவோ”
- Telugu: “మావో”
- Thai: “เมา”
- Turkish: “Mao”
- Ukrainian: “Мао”
- Urdu: “ماو، چاڈ”
- Urdu: “ماو”
- Vietnamese: “Mao”
- Western Mari: “Мао”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Mao”. Photo: Mahmoud Sabir97, CC BY 4.0.