Maroua

Maroua is the capital of the Far North Region of . In 2020, it was home to slightly over 1 million people.
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  • Type: City with 3,120,000 residents
  • Description: capital of the Far North Region of Cameroon
  • Also known as: “Makabaye” and “Марва”

Maroua

Latitude
10.6033° or 10° 36′ 12″ north
Longitude
14.3282° or 14° 19′ 41″ east
Population
3,120,000
Elevation
406 metres (1,332 feet)
IATA airport code
MVR
UN/LOCODE
CM MVR
Open location code
7F2PJ83H+87
Open­Street­Map ID
node 925365962
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2228373
Wiki­data ID
Q818824
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Waray—“Maroua” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ማሩዋ”
  • Arabic: “ماروا”
  • Arabic: “مارووا”
  • Arabic: “مروة”
  • Armenian: “Մարուա”
  • Asturian: “Maroua”
  • Azerbaijani: “Marua”
  • Basque: “Marua”
  • Belarusian: “Маруа”
  • Bengali: “মারুয়া”
  • Bengali: “মারোয়া”
  • Bole: “Marwa”
  • Bulgarian: “Маруа”
  • Catalan: “Maroua”
  • Cebuano: “Maroua”
  • Chinese: “馬魯阿”
  • Chinese: “马鲁阿”
  • Croatian: “Maroua”
  • Czech: “Maroua”
  • Danish: “Maroua”
  • Dutch: “Maroua”
  • Esperanto: “Maroua”
  • Estonian: “Maroua”
  • Finnish: “Maroua”
  • French: “Maroua”
  • Georgian: “მარუა”
  • German: “Maroua”
  • Greek: “Μαρουά”
  • Gujarati: “મારુઆ”
  • Hausa: “Marua”
  • Hausa: “Marwa”
  • Hebrew: “מרואה”
  • Hindi: “मारुआ”
  • Hindi: “मुरा”
  • Hungarian: “Maroua”
  • Indonesian: “Maroua”
  • Italian: “Maroua”
  • Japanese: “マルア”
  • Javanese: “Marua”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾರೌ”
  • Kazakh: “Маруа”
  • Kirghiz: “Маруа”
  • Korean: “마루아”
  • Latvian: “Marva”
  • Lithuanian: “Marua”
  • Malay: “Maroua”
  • Marathi: “मारुआ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Maroua”
  • Moksha: “Маруа”
  • Northern Frisian: “Maroua”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Maroua”
  • Norwegian: “Maroua”
  • Oromo: “Marua”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਰੋਆ”
  • Persian: “ماروا”
  • Persian: “مارووا”
  • Polish: “Maroua”
  • Portuguese: “Maroua”
  • Pushto: “ماروا”
  • Romanian: “Maroua”
  • Russian: “Маруа”
  • Rusyn: “Маруа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Maroua”
  • Sinhala: “මරුඕආ”
  • Somali: “Marua”
  • Spanish: “Maroua”
  • Swahili: “Maroua”
  • Swedish: “Maroua”
  • Tajik: “Маруа”
  • Tamil: “மறௌஆ”
  • Tatar: “Маруа”
  • Telugu: “మరోవా”
  • Thai: “มารวยโน”
  • Turkish: “Maroua”
  • Ukrainian: “Маруа”
  • Urdu: “مارؤا”
  • Uzbek: “Marua”
  • Vietnamese: “Maroua”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Maroua”

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