Nampula
Nampula is the capital of Nampula Province in Northern Mozambique, surrounded by plains and rocky outcrops. The city is connected by plane to Maputo; it hosts the regional market and is well supplied with shops, banks, hotels and restaurants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Joseolgon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nampula
- Type: City with 478,000 residents
- Description: city in Mozambique
- Categories: municipality of Mozambique, big city, and locality
- Location: Nampula Province, Northern Mozambique, Mozambique, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-15.1194° or 15° 7′ 10″ southLongitude
39.2616° or 39° 15′ 42″ eastPopulation
478,000Elevation
431 metres (1,414 feet)IATA airport code
APLUnited Nations Location Code
MZ APLOpen location code
5GPXV7J6+6JOpenStreetMap ID
node 286426799OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1033356Wikidata ID
Q323801
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Nampula” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Nampula”
- Arabic: “نامبولا”
- Armenian: “Նամպուլա”
- Asturian: “Nampula”
- Basque: “Nampula”
- Belarusian: “Нампула”
- Bengali: “নাম্পোলা”
- Catalan: “Nampula”
- Cebuano: “Cidade de Nampula”
- Cebuano: “Nampula”
- Chinese: “楠普拉”
- Croatian: “Nampula”
- Czech: “Nampula”
- Danish: “Nampula”
- Dutch: “Nampula”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نامبولا”
- Esperanto: “Nampula”
- Finnish: “Nampula”
- French: “Nampula”
- Georgian: “ნამპულა”
- German: “Nampula”
- Greek: “Ναμπούλα”
- Gujarati: “નામપુલા”
- Hausa: “Nampula”
- Hebrew: “נמפולה”
- Hindi: “नामपूला”
- Indonesian: “Nampula”
- Irish: “Nampula”
- Italian: “Nampula”
- Japanese: “ナンプーラ”
- Japanese: “ナンプラ”
- Kannada: “ನಂಪುಲ”
- Kinyarwanda: “Nampula”
- Korean: “남풀라”
- Latin: “Nampula”
- Latvian: “Nampula”
- Lithuanian: “Nampula”
- Malagasy: “Nampula”
- Malay: “Nampula”
- Maori: “Nampula”
- Marathi: “नामपूला”
- Northern Frisian: “Nampula”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nampula”
- Norwegian: “Nampula”
- Persian: “نامپولا”
- Polish: “Nampula”
- Portuguese: “Nampula”
- Romanian: “Nampula”
- Russian: “Нампула”
- Scots: “Nampula”
- Sinhala: “නම්පුලා”
- Slovak: “Nampula”
- Slovenian: “Nampula”
- South Azerbaijani: “الزباله”
- South Azerbaijani: “نامپولا”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Nampula”
- Spanish: “Nampula”
- Swahili: “Nampula”
- Swedish: “Nampula”
- Tamil: “நம்புலா”
- Telugu: “నంపూల”
- Thai: “นัมปูลา”
- Turkish: “Nampula”
- Ukrainian: “Нампула”
- Urdu: “نامپولا”
- Venetian: “Nampula”
- Vietnamese: “Nampula”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nampula”
- Xhosa: “Nampula”
- Zulu: “Nampula”
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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 “Nampula”. Photo: Joseolgon, CC BY-SA 3.0.