Mbandaka
Mbandaka is in Congo Basin. 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.
- City with 455,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 315 metres (1,033 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code MDK
- Description: is a port city in the Equateur Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo,
- Also known as“Bandaka”“Equator Station”“Wangata”
- Historically known as“Cocquilhatville”“Coquilhalville”“Coquilhatstad”“Coquilhatville”
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Latitude
0.0471° or 0° 2′ 50″ north
Longitude
18.2565° or 18° 15′ 23″ east
UN/LOCODE
CD MDK
Open location code
6FGW27W4+RH
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mbandaka” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Coquilhatstad”
- Afrikaans: “Coquilhatville”
- Afrikaans: “Mbandaka”
- Amharic: “ምባንዳካ”
- Arabic: “مبانداكا”
- Arabic: “مباندكا”
- Asturian: “Mbandaka”
- Azerbaijani: “Mbandaka”
- Belarusian: “Мбандака”
- Bengali: “এমবান্ডাকা”
- 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”
- Hausa: “Mbandaka”
- Hebrew: “מבנדאקה”
- Hindi: “बन्डाका”
- Hindi: “म्बांडाका”
- Hungarian: “Mbandaka”
- Indonesian: “Mbandaka”
- Italian: “Mbandaka”
- Japanese: “ムバンダカ”
- Japanese: “ンバンダカ”
- Javanese: “Mbandaka”
- Kannada: “ಬಂಡಕ”
- Kazakh: “Мбандака”
- Kirghiz: “Мбандака”
- 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”
- Oromo: “Mbandaka”
- Panjabi: “ਮਬਾਂਡਾਕਾ”
- Persian: “مبانداکا”
- Polish: “Coquilhatville”
- Polish: “Mbandaka”
- Portuguese: “Mbandaka”
- Portuguese: “Mebandaca”
- Pushto: “مباندكا”
- Romanian: “Mbandaka”
- Russian: “Мбандака”
- Serbian: “Mbandaka”
- Serbian: “Мбандака”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mbandaka”
- Shona: “Mbandaka”
- Sinhala: “ම්බන්ඩාකා”
- Slovak: “Coquilhatstad”
- Slovak: “Coquilhatville”
- Slovak: “Mbandaka”
- Somali: “Mbandaka”
- Spanish: “Coquilhatville”
- Spanish: “Mbandaka”
- Swahili: “Mbandaka”
- Swedish: “Coquilhatville”
- Swedish: “Mbandaka”
- Tagalog: “Mbandaka”
- Tajik: “Мбандака”
- Tamil: “பாண்டாகா”
- Tatar: “Мбандака”
- Telugu: “బండాక”
- Thai: “บังดาคา”
- Turkish: “Mbandaka”
- Ukrainian: “Мбандака”
- Urdu: “مبانداکا”
- Uzbek: “Mbandaka”
- Vietnamese: “Mbandaka”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mbandaka”
- Zulu: “Mbandaka”
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