Nazca
Nazca or Nasca is a town in Peru's Southern Coast region. It is most famous for the Nazca Lines, a collection of long lines, geometrical figures, and giant drawings in the desert sand that have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list.Places of Interest
Highlights: Estadio Municipal de Nasca.
Nazca
- Type: Town with 23,000 residents
- Description: city in Ica, Peru
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Nazca District, Nasca Province, Ica, Southern Coast, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-14.8277° or 14° 49′ 40″ south
Longitude
-74.9371° or 74° 56′ 13″ west
Population
23,000
Elevation
584 metres (1,916 feet)
IATA airport code
NZC
UN/LOCODE
PE NS8
Open location code
57Q753C7+W5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Nazca” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نازكا، بيرو”
- Arabic: “نازكا”
- Aragonese: “Nazca”
- Asturian: “Naska”
- Bavarian: “Nazca”
- Belarusian: “Наска”
- Bengali: “নাজকা”
- Bulgarian: “Наска”
- Catalan: “Nazca”
- Cebuano: “Nazca (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Nazca”
- Chinese: “納斯卡”
- Chinese: “纳斯卡”
- Croatian: “Nazca”
- Czech: “Nazca”
- Danish: “Nazca”
- Dutch: “Nazca”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نازكا”
- Esperanto: “Nazca”
- Finnish: “Nasca”
- Finnish: “Nazca”
- French: “Nazca”
- Galician: “Nazca”
- Georgian: “ნასკა”
- German: “Nasca”
- German: “Nazca”
- Greek: “Νάζκα”
- Gujarati: “નાઝકા”
- Hebrew: “נסקה”
- Hindi: “नास्का”
- Indonesian: “Nazca”
- Italian: “Nazca”
- Japanese: “ナスカ市”
- Kannada: “ನಜ್ಕಾ”
- Korean: “나스카”
- Latvian: “Naska”
- Lithuanian: “Naska”
- Macedonian: “Наска”
- Malay: “Nazca”
- Marathi: “नाझका”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nazca”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nazca”
- Norwegian: “Nazca”
- Persian: “نازکا”
- Polish: “Nazca”
- Polish: “Płaskowyż Nazca”
- Portuguese: “Nazca”
- Portuguese: “Placa de Nazca”
- Quechua: “Naska”
- Russian: “Наска”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nazca”
- Sinhala: “නස්කා”
- Slovak: “Nazca”
- Slovenian: “Nazca”
- Spanish: “Nasca”
- Spanish: “Nazca”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Nazca”
- Swedish: “Nasca”
- Tamil: “நஸ்க்கா”
- Telugu: “నాజ్కా”
- Thai: “นัสก้า”
- Turkish: “Nazca”
- Ukrainian: “Наска”
- Urdu: “نازکا”
- Vietnamese: “Nazca”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nazca”
- “Nazca”
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