Nkhotakota
Nkhotakota is a town in Central Malawi with a population of just over 20,000, on the shore of Lake Malawi. The town itself is quite basic, with a few basic hotels that cater predominantly to the domestic market.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Nkhotakota
- Type: Town with 32,000 residents
- Description: human settlement in Malawi
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Nkhotakota District, Central Malawi, Malawi, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-12.927° or 12° 55′ 37″ southLongitude
34.2967° or 34° 17′ 48″ eastPopulation
32,000Elevation
497 metres (1,631 feet)Open location code
5GVP37FW+6MOpenStreetMap ID
node 261051594OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
924705Wikidata ID
Q1022510
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Zulu—“Nkhotakota” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Kota Kota”
- Catalan: “Nkhotakota”
- Cebuano: “Nkhotakota”
- Chinese: “恩科塔科塔”
- Danish: “Nkhotakota”
- Dutch: “Nkhotakota”
- Finnish: “Nkhotakota”
- French: “Nkhotakota”
- German: “Nkhotakota”
- Icelandic: “Kota Kota”
- Icelandic: “Nkhotakota”
- Irish: “Nkhotakota”
- Italian: “Nkhotakota”
- Japanese: “コタコタ”
- Japanese: “ンコタコタ”
- Korean: “은코타코타”
- Lithuanian: “Nkhotakota”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nkhotakota”
- Nyanja: “Nkhota-kota”
- Nyanja: “Nkhotakota”
- Persian: “نخوتاکوتا”
- Polish: “Nkhotakota”
- Romanian: “Nkhotakota”
- Russian: “Нкота-Кота”
- Russian: “Нхотакота”
- South Azerbaijani: “نخوتاکوتا”
- Swahili: “Nkhotakota”
- Swedish: “Nkhotakota”
- Tumbuka: “Nkhotakota”
- Turkish: “Nkhotakota, Malavi”
- Turkish: “Nkhotakota”
- Ukrainian: “Нхотакота”
- Zulu: “Nkhotakota”
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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 “Nkhotakota”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.