Ocotal

Ocotal is in . It is a smallish town near a lesser used northern border crossing. It has a real frontier feel. Not much for most travelers here other than a transit point.
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  • Type: City with 46,300 residents
  • Description: municipality in Nueva Segovia Department, Nicaragua
  • Also known as: “Chhiūⁿ Ocotal”, “Comune di Ocotal”, “Đô thị Ocotal”, “Gemeente Ocotal”, “Gemeinde von Ocotal”, “Gmina Ocotal”, “Municipalité de Ocotal”, “Municipality of Ocotal”, “Município de Ocotal”, “Munisipyo sa Ocotal”, “Ocotal (comune)”, “Ocotal (đô thị)”, “Ocotal (gemeente)”, “Ocotal (Gemeinde)”, “Ocotal (gmina)”, “Ocotal (kommun)”, “Ocotal (municipalité)”, “Ocotal (Municipio)”, “Ocotal (município)”, “Ocotal (udalerria)”, “Ocotal (δήμος)”, “Ocotal (муниципалитет)”, “Ocotal chhiūⁿ”, “Ocotal kommun”, “Ocotal Municipality”, “Ocotal nga Munisipyo”, “Ocotal（市镇）”, “Ocotal（自治体）”, “Ocotalko udalerria”, “Ocotal市镇”, “Ocotal自治体”, “Δήμος Ocotal”, “Муниципалитет Ocotal”, and “Окотал (департман)”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Church of Our Lady of the Assumption.

Church
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Ocotal

Latitude
13.632° or 13° 37′ 55″ north
Longitude
-86.4744° or 86° 28′ 28″ west
Population
46,300
Elevation
639 metres (2,096 feet)
Open location code
765MJGJG+Q6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 302260821
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3617447
Wiki­data ID
Q1025830
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Ocotal” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أكوتال”
  • Armenian: “Օկտալ”
  • Asturian: “Ocotal”
  • Basque: “Ocotal”
  • Belarusian: “Акаталь”
  • Bengali: “ওকোটাল”
  • Catalan: “Ocotal”
  • Cebuano: “Ocotal”
  • Chinese: “奥科塔尔”
  • Chinese: “奧科塔爾”
  • Czech: “Ocotal”
  • Danish: “Ocotal”
  • Dutch: “Ocotal”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اكوتال”
  • Esperanto: “Ocotal”
  • Finnish: “Ocotal”
  • French: “Ocotal”
  • Georgian: “ოკოტალი”
  • German: “Ocotal”
  • Greek: “Όκοταλ”
  • Gujarati: “ઓકોટલ”
  • Hindi: “ओकॉटल”
  • Hungarian: “Ocotal”
  • Indonesian: “Ocotal”
  • Irish: “Ocotal”
  • Italian: “Ocotal”
  • Japanese: “オコタル”
  • Kannada: “ಒಕೊಟಲ್”
  • Korean: “오코탈”
  • Latvian: “Okotala”
  • Lithuanian: “Okotalis”
  • Malay: “Ocotal”
  • Marathi: “ओकॉटल”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ocotal”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ocotal”
  • Ossetian: “Окоталь”
  • Polish: “Ocotal”
  • Portuguese: “Ocotal”
  • Russian: “Окоталь”
  • Serbian: “Окотал”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ocotal”
  • Sinhala: “ඔකොටල්”
  • Slovak: “Ocotal”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Ocotal”
  • Spanish: “Ocotal”
  • Swedish: “Ocotal”
  • Tamil: “ஒகோட்டால்”
  • Telugu: “వోకోటల్”
  • Thai: “โอโกตัล”
  • Turkish: “Ocotal”
  • Ukrainian: “Окоталь”
  • Urdu: “اوکوتال”
  • Veps: “Okotal‘”
  • Vietnamese: “Ocotal”
  • Welsh: “Ocotal”
  • “Ocotal”

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