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.
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Nosy Be
- Locality with 60,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 113 metres (371 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code NOS
- Description: island in Madagascar
- Also known as“Assada”“Nosse Be”“Nossi-b锓Nosy”
- Category: volcanic island
- Location
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Latitude of center
-13.3° or 13° 18′ south
Longitude of center
48.255° or 48° 15′ 18″ east
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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”
- Hausa: “Nosy Be”
- 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”
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