Mozambique
Northern Mozambique
Cabo Delgado Province

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 .
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  • Type: City with 141,000 residents
  • Description: city in Mozambique
  • Also known as: “Pemba, Mozambique”
  • Historically known as: “Porto Amelia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pemba Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: Goldsztajn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a small international airport in Pemba, .

Pemba

Latitude
-12.9736° or 12° 58′ 25″ south
Longitude
40.5215° or 40° 31′ 17″ east
Population
141,000
Elevation
50 metres (164 feet)
IATA airport code
POL
United Nations Location Code
MZ POL
Open location code
5HV22GGC+HJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 331691755
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1028918
Wiki­data ID
Q498048
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Satellite Map

Discover Pemba from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Pemba” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيمبا”
  • Armenian: “Պեմբա”
  • Asturian: “Pemba”
  • Basque: “Pemba”
  • Bengali: “পেম্বা”
  • Catalan: “Pemba”
  • Catalan: “Porto Amélia”
  • Cebuano: “Pemba (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Pemba”
  • Chinese: “奔巴”
  • Chinese: “彭巴”
  • Croatian: “Pemba”
  • Danish: “Pemba”
  • Dutch: “Pemba”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيمبا”
  • Esperanto: “Pemba”
  • Finnish: “Pemba”
  • Finnish: “Porto Amelia”
  • French: “Pemba”
  • French: “Pemba/Porto Amelia”
  • French: “Porto Amelia”
  • Georgian: “პემბა”
  • German: “Pemba”
  • Greek: “Πέμπα”
  • Gujarati: “પેમ્બા”
  • Hindi: “पेम्बा”
  • Hungarian: “Pemba”
  • Indonesian: “Pemba, Mozambik”
  • Indonesian: “Pemba”
  • Irish: “Pemba”
  • Italian: “Pemba”
  • Japanese: “ペンバ”
  • Kannada: “ಪೆಂಬಾ”
  • Korean: “펨바”
  • Latvian: “Pemba”
  • Lithuanian: “Pemba”
  • Malagasy: “Pemba”
  • Malay: “Pemba, Mozambique”
  • Malay: “Pemba”
  • Marathi: “पेम्बा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pemba”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pemba”
  • Norwegian: “Pemba”
  • Persian: “پمبا، موزامبیک”
  • Polish: “Pemba”
  • Polish: “Porto Amélia”
  • Portuguese: “Pemba”
  • Portuguese: “Porto Amélia”
  • Romanian: “Pemba, Mozambic”
  • Romanian: “Pemba”
  • Russian: “Пемба”
  • Russian: “Порту-Амелия”
  • Scots: “Pemba”
  • Sinhala: “පෙම්බා”
  • Slovenian: “Pemba”
  • Slovenian: “Porto Amelia”
  • Spanish: “Pemba”
  • Swahili: “Pemba”
  • Swedish: “Pemba, Moçambique”
  • Swedish: “Pemba”
  • Tamil: “பீபா”
  • Telugu: “పెంబ”
  • Thai: “เพมบา”
  • Turkish: “Pemba”
  • Ukrainian: “Пемба”
  • Urdu: “پیمبا، موزمبیق”
  • Venetian: “Pemba”
  • Vietnamese: “Pemba”
  • Wu Chinese: “彭巴”
  • Yue Chinese: “奔巴”
  • Zulu: “Pemba, Mozambiki”

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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 Wikipedia page “Pemba”. Photo: Ton Rulkens, CC BY-SA 2.0.