Southern Africa
Eswatini
Hhohho Region

Mbabane

Mbabane is the largest city of . It houses Sibebe Rock, one of the biggest mountains in . It sits on the banks of the Mbabane River and its tributary the Polinjane River in the Mdzimba Mountains, and was home to 95,000 people in 2010.
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  • Type: City with 94,900 residents
  • Description: capital of Eswatini
  • Also known as: “Mbabané”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Embassy of the Republic of China and Mbabane Government Hospital.

Government office
Photo: Kransky, CC BY 3.0.
The in the Kingdom of Eswatini is the embassy of the in Mbabane, . The two countries have had diplomatic relations since Eswatini's independence in 1968.

Hospital
is the national hospital in Mbabane, with 500 beds. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma worked at this hospital at a paediatric nurse in the 1980s.

Government office
Photo: Shosholoza, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a government office.

Mbabane

Latitude
-26.3257° or 26° 19′ 33″ south
Longitude
31.1447° or 31° 8′ 41″ east
Population
94,900
Elevation
1,209 metres (3,967 feet)
IATA airport code
QMN
United Nations Location Code
SZ QMN
Open location code
5G5HM4FV+PV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 243837793
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
934985
Wiki­data ID
Q3904
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mbabane” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mbabane”
  • Albanian: “Mbabane”
  • Amharic: “ምባባኔ”
  • Arabic: “مبابان”
  • Aragonese: “Mbabane”
  • Armenian: “Մբաբանե”
  • Asturian: “Mbabane”
  • Azerbaijani: “Esvatini”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mbabane”
  • Balinese: “Mbabane”
  • Bambara: “Mbabane”
  • Bashkir: “Мбабане”
  • Basque: “Mbabane”
  • Belarusian: “Мбабанэ”
  • Bengali: “এম্বাবানে”
  • Bosnian: “Mbabane”
  • Breton: “Mbabane”
  • Bulgarian: “Мбабане”
  • Catalan: “Mbabane”
  • Cebuano: “Mbabane (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Mbabane”
  • Central Bikol: “Mbabane”
  • Central Kurdish: “مبابانێ”
  • Chechen: “Мбабане”
  • Chinese: “Mbabane”
  • Chinese: “姆巴巴內”
  • Chinese: “姆巴巴内”
  • Chinese: “墨巴本”
  • Croatian: “Mbabane”
  • Czech: “Mbabane”
  • Dagbani: “Mbabane”
  • Dagbani: “Mbabané”
  • Danish: “Mbabane”
  • Dutch: “Mbabane”
  • Esperanto: “Mababano”
  • Esperanto: “Mbabano”
  • Estonian: “Mbabane”
  • Ewe: “Mbabane”
  • Ewe: “Mbabané”
  • Extremaduran: “Mbabane”
  • Fanti: “Mbabane”
  • Fanti: “Mbabané”
  • Farefare: “Mbabane”
  • Farefare: “Mbabané”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Mbabane”
  • Finnish: “Mbabane”
  • French: “Mbabane”
  • French: “Mbabané”
  • Ga: “Mbabane”
  • Ga: “Mbabané”
  • Galician: “Mbabane”
  • Georgian: “მბაბანე”
  • German: “Mbabane”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Mbabane”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Mbabané”
  • Greek: “Μπαμπάνε”
  • Gujarati: “એમ્બાબને”
  • Haitian: “Mbabàn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Mbabane”
  • Hausa: “Mbabane”
  • Hausa: “Mbabané”
  • Hebrew: “מבבנה”
  • Hindi: “बाबाने”
  • Hindi: “मबैब्ने”
  • Hungarian: “Mbabane”
  • Icelandic: “Mbabane”
  • Ido: “Mbabane”
  • Igbo: “Mbabane”
  • Igbo: “Mbabané”
  • Inari Sami: “Mbabane”
  • Indonesian: “Mbabane”
  • Interlingua: “Mbabane”
  • Interlingue: “Mbabane”
  • Irish: “Mbabane”
  • Italian: “Mbabane”
  • Japanese: “ムババーネ”
  • Javanese: “Mbabane”
  • Kabyle: “Mbabane”
  • Kannada: “ಅಂಬಾಬಾನೇ”
  • Kazakh: “Мбабане”
  • Kirghiz: “Мбабане”
  • Kongo: “Mbabane”
  • Korean: “음바바네”
  • Kotava: “Mbabane”
  • Kusaal: “Mbabane”
  • Kusaal: “Mbabané”
  • Latin: “Mbabane”
  • Latvian: “Mbabane”
  • Ligurian: “Mbabane”
  • Lithuanian: “Mbabanė”
  • Lombard: “Mbabane”
  • Low German: “Mbabane”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mbabane”
  • Macedonian: “Мбабане”
  • Malagasy: “Mbabane”
  • Malay: “Mbabane”
  • Malayalam: “എംബബാനി”
  • Marathi: “अंबाबाने”
  • Mazanderani: “امبابانه”
  • Mazanderani: “مبابانه”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Mbabane”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mbabane”
  • Minangkabau: “Mbabane”
  • Mingrelian: “მბაბანე”
  • Moksha: “Мбабанэ”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مباباني”
  • Mossi: “Mbabane”
  • Mossi: “Mbabané”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Mbabane”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Mbabané”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mbabane”
  • Northern Sami: “Mbabane”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mbabane”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mbabane”
  • Norwegian: “Mbabane”
  • Novial: “Mbabane”
  • Nyanja: “Mbabane”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mbabane”
  • Ossetian: “Мбабане”
  • Panjabi: “ਅੰਬਾਬਾਨੇ”
  • Papiamento: “Mbabane”
  • Persian: “امبابانه”
  • Persian: “مبابانه”
  • Piemontese: “Mbabane”
  • Polish: “Mbabane”
  • Portuguese: “Mbabane”
  • Portuguese: “Mebabane”
  • Pushto: “مبابانه”
  • Romanian: “Mbabane”
  • Russian: “Мбабане”
  • Sardinian: “Mbabane”
  • Scots: “Mbabane”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Mbabane”
  • Serbian: “Мбабане”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mbabane”
  • Shona: “Mbabane”
  • Silesian: “Mbabane”
  • Sindhi: “ايمباباني”
  • Sinhala: “ම්බාබේන්”
  • Slovak: “Mbabane”
  • Slovenian: “Mbabane”
  • Somali: “Mabane”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Mbabane”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Mbabané”
  • Spanish: “Babane”
  • Spanish: “Mbabane”
  • Swahili: “Mbabane”
  • Swati: “Embabane”
  • Swati: “ÉMbábáne”
  • Swedish: “Mbabane”
  • Tagalog: “Mbabane”
  • Tajik: “Мбабане”
  • Tamil: “இம்பபான்”
  • Tatar: “Мбабане”
  • Telugu: “మబాబనే”
  • Thai: “อัมบาบาเน”
  • Thai: “อึมบาบานี”
  • Tibetan: “མ་པ་པན།”
  • Turkish: “Mbabane”
  • Twi: “Mbabane”
  • Twi: “Mbabané”
  • Udmurt: “Мбабане”
  • Ukrainian: “Мбабане”
  • Urdu: “امبابانی”
  • Urdu: “مبابنے”
  • Uzbek: “Mbabane”
  • Venetian: “Mbabane”
  • Veps: “Mbabane”
  • Vietnamese: “Mbabane”
  • Wali (Ghana): “Mbabane”
  • Wali (Ghana): “Mbabané”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mbabane”
  • Welsh: “Mbabane”
  • Western Panjabi: “مبابین”
  • Wu Chinese: “姆巴巴内”
  • Yiddish: “מבאבאנע”
  • Yoruba: “Mbabane”
  • Yoruba: “Mbabané”
  • Yue Chinese: “墨巴本”
  • Zulu: “IMbabane”
  • “ma tomo Enpapane”
  • “Mbabane”
  • “Mbabané”

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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 “Mbabane”. Photo: Athena Lao, CC BY 2.0.