Nosy Be
Nosy Be is a volcanic island off the northwest coast of Madagascar. Nosy Be is Madagascar's largest and busiest tourist destination. It has an area of 320.02 km2, and its population was 109,465 according to the provisional results of the 2018 Census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Nosy Komba and Hell-Ville.
Nosy Komba
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Nosy Komba is a small island off the northwest coast of Madagascar, located a short boat ride south of Nosy Be.
Hell-Ville
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Hell-Ville is the largest city on the Madagascan island of Nosy Be. It is officially called Andoany, but is more commonly known by its previous name. It was named after Anne Chrétien Louis de Hell, a French admiral who was governor of Reunion Island from 1838 to 1841.
Nosy Tanikely
Nosy Tanikely is a small, uninhabited island and marine sanctuary located southwest of Nosy Be in Madagascar.
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Nosy Be
- Type: Locality with 60,000 residents
- Description: island in Madagascar
- Also known as: “Assada”, “Nosse Be”, “Nossi-bé”, and “Nosy”
- Category: volcanic island
- Location: Diana Region, Antsiranana Province, Madagascar, East African Islands, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Nosy Be” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نوسي بي”
- Armenian: “Նուսե Բե”
- Armenian: “Նուսի-Բե”
- Basque: “Nosy Be”
- Breton: “Nosy Be”
- Catalan: “Nossi-Bé”
- Cebuano: “Nosy Be (pulo, lat -13,31, long 48,26)”
- Cebuano: “Nosy Be”
- Chinese: “貝島”
- Chinese: “贝岛”
- Croatian: “Nosy Be”
- Czech: “Nosy Be”
- Dutch: “Nosy Be”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نوسى ب”
- Esperanto: “Nosy Be”
- Estonian: “Be saar”
- French: “Île aux parfums”
- French: “Nossi-Bé”
- French: “Nosy Be”
- French: “Nosy Bé”
- French: “Nosy-Be”
- Georgian: “ნოსი-ბე”
- German: “Assada”
- German: “Nossi-Be”
- German: “Nossi-Bé”
- German: “Nosy Be”
- German: “Nosy Bé”
- German: “Nosy Manitra”
- German: “Nosy-Be”
- Greek: “Νόσι Μπε”
- Hebrew: “נוסי בה”
- Indonesian: “Nosy Be”
- Italian: “Nossi Bé”
- Italian: “Nossi-bé”
- Italian: “Nosy Be”
- Italian: “Nosy-Be”
- Japanese: “ヌシ・ベ”
- Japanese: “ノシ・ベ”
- Japanese: “ノシ・ベ島”
- Japanese: “ノシベ”
- Korean: “노지베섬”
- Lithuanian: “Bė sala”
- Macedonian: “Нуси Бе”
- Malagasy: “Hell-ville”
- Malagasy: “Nosy Be”
- Malagasy: “nosy magnitry”
- Malay: “Nosy Be”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nossi-bé”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nosy Be”
- Norwegian: “Nosy Be”
- Persian: “نوسی به”
- Polish: “Nosy Be”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Nosy Be”
- Russian: “Носи-Бе”
- Russian: “Носси-Бе”
- Russian: “Нуси Бэ”
- Russian: “Нуси-Бе”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nosi Be”
- Slovak: “Nosy-Be”
- Spanish: “Assada”
- Spanish: “Isla Nosy Be”
- Spanish: “Nossi be”
- Spanish: “Nossi bé”
- Spanish: “Nossi-be”
- Spanish: “Nossi-bé”
- Spanish: “Nosy Be”
- Swedish: “Nossi-Bé”
- Ukrainian: “Нусі-Бе”
- Zulu: “Nosy Be”
- “Nosy Be”
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