Matadi
Matadi is a major city of 300,000 in Western DRC, located on the banks of River Congo. It is the country's chief sea port and the capital of the Bas-Congo province.
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- Type: City with 426,000 residents
- Description: city in DR Congo
- Also known as: “Matidi”, “Ville de Matadi”, and “マタジ”
Matadi
- Categories: official city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and locality
- Location: Luozi, Bas-Congo Province, Western DRC, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-5.8257° or 5° 49′ 32″ south
Longitude
13.4609° or 13° 27′ 39″ east
Population
426,000
Elevation
183 metres (600 feet)
IATA airport code
MAT
UN/LOCODE
CD MAT
Open location code
6F6M5FF6+P9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Matadi” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ማታዲ”
- Arabic: “ماتادي”
- Armenian: “Մատադի”
- Asturian: “Matadi”
- Azerbaijani: “Matadi”
- Basque: “Matadi”
- Belarusian: “Матады”
- Bengali: “ক্যারিপিতো”
- Bengali: “মাতাদি”
- Bulgarian: “Матади”
- Catalan: “Matadi”
- Cebuano: “Matadi”
- Chinese: “馬塔迪”
- Chinese: “马塔迪”
- Croatian: “Matadi”
- Czech: “Matadi”
- Danish: “Matadi”
- Dutch: “Matadi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماتادى”
- Esperanto: “Matadi”
- Estonian: “Matadi”
- Finnish: “Matadi”
- French: “Matadi”
- Georgian: “მატადი”
- German: “Matadi”
- Greek: “Ματάντι”
- Gujarati: “માટાડી”
- Hausa: “Matadi”
- Hebrew: “מאטדי”
- Hindi: “मटाडी”
- Hindi: “मातडी”
- Hungarian: “Matadi”
- Indonesian: “Matadi”
- Italian: “Matadi”
- Japanese: “マタディ”
- Javanese: “Matadi”
- Kannada: “ಮಾತದಿ”
- Kazakh: “Матади”
- Kirghiz: “Матади”
- Kongo: “Matadi”
- Korean: “마타디”
- Latvian: “Matadi”
- Lingala: “Matádi”
- Lithuanian: “Matadis”
- Luba-Lulua: “Matadi”
- Luxembourgish: “Matadi”
- Malagasy: “Matadi”
- Malay: “Matadi”
- Marathi: “मादाडी”
- Mingrelian: “მატადი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Matadi”
- Norwegian: “Matadi”
- Oromo: “Matadi”
- Panjabi: “ਮਾਤਾਡੀ”
- Persian: “ماتادی”
- Polish: “Matadi”
- Portuguese: “Matadi”
- Pushto: “ماتادي”
- Romanian: “Matadi”
- Russian: “Матади”
- Serbian: “Matadi”
- Serbian: “Матади”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Matadi”
- Shona: “Matadi”
- Silesian: “Matadi”
- Sinhala: “මටඩි”
- Slovak: “Matadi”
- Slovenian: “Matadi”
- Somali: “Matadi”
- South Azerbaijani: “ماتادی”
- Spanish: “Matadi”
- Swahili: “Matadi”
- Swedish: “Matadi”
- Tagalog: “Matadi”
- Tajik: “Матади”
- Tamil: “மாடடி”
- Tatar: “Матади”
- Telugu: “మటాడి”
- Thai: “อ่าวมาคาดิ”
- Turkish: “Matadi”
- Uighur: “ماتادى”
- Ukrainian: “Матаді”
- Urdu: “ماتادی”
- Uzbek: “Matadi”
- Vietnamese: “Matadi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Matadi”
- Zulu: “Matadi”
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