Pemba

Pemba is a port city and district in . It is the capital and largest city of the province and lies on a peninsula in , the third largest in .
  • City with about 141,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 30 metres (100 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code POL
  • …is also known as “Pemba, Mozambique”
  • …was formerly known as “Porto Amelia”
  • Description: city in Mozambique

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pemba Airport.
is a small international airport in Pemba, .
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Latitude
-12.9736° or 12° 58′ 25″ south
Longitude
40.5215° or 40° 31′ 17″ east
UN/LOCODE
MZ POL
Open location code
5HV22GGC+HJ
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Pemba” goes by many names.
ፔምባAmharic
بيمباArabic
ՊեմբաArmenian
PembaAsturian
PembaAzerbaijani
PembaBasque
পেম্বাBengali
PembaCatalan
Porto AméliaCatalan
PembaCebuano
Pemba (kapital sa lalawigan)Cebuano
彭巴Chinese
PembaCroatian
PembaDanish
PembaDutch
بيمباEgyptian Arabic
PembaEsperanto
PembaFinnish
Porto AmeliaFinnish
პემბაGeorgian
ΠέμπαGreek
પેમ્બાGujarati
PembaHausa
पेम्बाHindi
PembaHungarian
PembaIndonesian
Pemba, MozambikIndonesian
PembaIrish
PembaItalian
ペンバJapanese
PembaJavanese
ಪೆಂಬಾKannada
ПембаKazakh
ПембаKirghiz
펨바Korean
PembaLatvian
PembaLithuanian
PembaMalagasy
PembaMalay
Pemba, MozambiqueMalay
पेम्बाMarathi
PembaNorthern Frisian
PembaNorwegian
PembaNorwegian Bokmål
PembaOromo
ਪੰਬਾPanjabi
پمباPersian
پمبا، موزامبیکPersian
PembaPolish
Porto AméliaPolish
پمباPushto
PembaRomanian
Pemba, MozambicRomanian
ПембаRussian
Порту-АмелияRussian
PembaScots
පෙම්බාSinhala
PembaSlovenian
Porto AmeliaSlovenian
PembaSomali
PembaSwahili
PembaSwedish
Pemba, MoçambiqueSwedish
ПембаTajik
பீபாTamil
ПембаTatar
పెంబTelugu
เป็งบาThai
PembaTurkish
ПембаUkrainian
پیمبا، موزمبیقUrdu
PembaUzbek
PembaVenetian
PembaVietnamese
彭巴Wu Chinese
奔巴Yue Chinese
Pemba, MozambikiZulu

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