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Mbandaka

Mbandaka

Mbandaka is in . It is the capital of Equateur province. This city is formerly known as Coqilhatville where it was named by the Belgians in 1886 during the beginning of colonial rule.
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  • Type: City with 455,000 residents
  • Description: is a port city in the Equateur Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo,
  • Also known as: “Bandaka” and “Wangata”
  • Historically known as: “Cocquilhatville”, “Coquilhalville”, “Coquilhatstad”, and “Coquilhatville”

Mbandaka

Latitude
0.0471° or 0° 2′ 50″ north
Longitude
18.2565° or 18° 15′ 23″ east
Population
455,000
Elevation
315 metres (1,033 feet)
IATA airport code
MDK
United Nations Location Code
CD MDK
Open location code
6FGW27W4+RH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29808923
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2312895
Wiki­data ID
Q211070
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mbandaka” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Coquilhatstad”
  • Afrikaans: “Coquilhatville”
  • Afrikaans: “Mbandaka”
  • Arabic: “مبانداكا”
  • Asturian: “Mbandaka”
  • Belarusian: “Мбандака”
  • Bengali: “ম্বান্দাকা”
  • Bulgarian: “Мбандака”
  • Catalan: “Mbandaka”
  • Cebuano: “Mbandaka”
  • Chinese: “姆班达卡”
  • Chinese: “姆班達卡”
  • Chinese: “科基拉维尔”
  • Croatian: “Mbandaka”
  • Czech: “Mbandaka”
  • Danish: “Mbandaka”
  • Dutch: “Coquilhatstad”
  • Dutch: “Coquilhatville”
  • Dutch: “Mbandaka”
  • Esperanto: “Mbandaka”
  • Estonian: “Coquilhatville”
  • Estonian: “Mbandaka”
  • Finnish: “Mbandaka”
  • French: “Coquilathville”
  • French: “Coquilhatville”
  • French: “Mbandaka”
  • French: “Station Équateur”
  • Georgian: “მბანდაკა”
  • German: “Coquilhatville”
  • German: “Mbandaka”
  • Greek: “Μπαντάκα”
  • Gujarati: “મબાનડાકા”
  • Hebrew: “מבנדאקה”
  • Hindi: “बन्डाका”
  • Hungarian: “Mbandaka”
  • Indonesian: “Mbandaka”
  • Italian: “Mbandaka”
  • Japanese: “ムバンダカ”
  • Japanese: “ンバンダカ”
  • Kannada: “ಬಂಡಕ”
  • Kongo: “Coquilathville”
  • Kongo: “Mbandaka”
  • Korean: “음반다카”
  • Latvian: “Mbandaka”
  • Lingala: “Mbandaka”
  • Lingala: “Mbándáká”
  • Lithuanian: “Kokijavilis”
  • Lithuanian: “Mbandaka”
  • Luba-Lulua: “Coquilathville”
  • Luba-Lulua: “Mbandaka”
  • Malay: “Mbandaka”
  • Marathi: “मबनडाका”
  • Mingrelian: “მბანდაკა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mbandaka”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mbandaka”
  • Norwegian: “Mbandaka”
  • Persian: “مبانداکا”
  • Polish: “Coquilhatville”
  • Polish: “Mbandaka”
  • Portuguese: “Mbandaka”
  • Portuguese: “Mebandaca”
  • Romanian: “Mbandaka”
  • Russian: “Мбандака”
  • Serbian: “Mbandaka”
  • Serbian: “Мбандака”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mbandaka”
  • Shona: “Mbandaka”
  • Sinhala: “ම්බන්ඩාකා”
  • Slovak: “Coquilhatstad”
  • Slovak: “Coquilhatville”
  • Slovak: “Mbandaka”
  • Spanish: “Coquilhatville”
  • Spanish: “Mbandaka”
  • Swahili: “Mbandaka”
  • Swedish: “Coquilhatville”
  • Swedish: “Mbandaka”
  • Tagalog: “Mbandaka”
  • Tamil: “பாண்டாகா”
  • Telugu: “బండాక”
  • Thai: “บังดาคา”
  • Turkish: “Mbandaka”
  • Ukrainian: “Мбандака”
  • Urdu: “مبانداکا”
  • Vietnamese: “Mbandaka”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mbandaka”
  • Zulu: “Mbandaka”
  • “Mbandaka”

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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 “Mbandaka”. Photo: PClement, CC BY-SA 3.0.