Monkey Bay
Monkey Bay is at the southern end of Lake Malawi, in the Southern Region of Malawi. It is a small port town, home to large monkey population and gateway to Cape Maclear and the world heritage listed Lake Malawi National Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bdell555, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Monkey Bay Airport.
Monkey Bay Airport
Aerodrome
Monkey Bay Airport is an airport serving the Lake Malawi port town of Monkey Bay, in the Southern Region of Malawi. There is high terrain northwest of the airport.
Monkey Bay
- Type: Town with 16,900 residents
- Description: human settlement in Malawi
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Mangochi District, Southern Malawi, Malawi, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-14.0831° or 14° 4′ 59″ southLongitude
34.9145° or 34° 54′ 52″ eastPopulation
16,900Elevation
484 metres (1,588 feet)IATA airport code
MYZUnited Nations Location Code
MW MYZOpen location code
5GQPWW87+PROpenStreetMap ID
node 265361856OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
926308Wikidata ID
Q1944901
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Monkey Bay” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Monkey Bay”
- Cebuano: “Monkey Bay”
- Chinese: “猴子灣”
- Danish: “Monkey Bay”
- Dutch: “Monkey Bay”
- French: “Lusumbwe”
- French: “Monkey Bay”
- German: “Monkey Bay”
- Hungarian: “Monkey Bay”
- Icelandic: “Apaflói”
- Icelandic: “Monkey Bay”
- Italian: “Monkey Bay”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Monkey Bay”
- Norwegian: “Monkey Bay”
- Nyanja: “Monkey Bay”
- Persian: “مونکی بای”
- Polish: “Monkey Bay”
- Russian: “Монки-Бей”
- South Azerbaijani: “مونکی بای”
- Swahili: “Monkey Bay”
- Swedish: “Monkey Bay”
- Turkish: “Monkey Bay”
- Ukrainian: “Манкі-Бей”
- Zulu: “Monkey Bay”
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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 “Monkey Bay”. Photo: Bdell555, Public domain.