Pemba
Pemba is a port city and district in Mozambique. It is the capital and largest city of the Cabo Delgado province and lies on a peninsula in Pemba Bay, the third largest in Africa.
- Type: City with 141,000 residents
- Description: city in Mozambique
- Also known as: “Pemba, Mozambique”, “Pemba/Porto Amelia”, “Porto Amélia”, and “Порту-Амелия”
- Historically known as: “Porto Amelia”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Pemba Airport.
Pemba
- Categories: municipality of Mozambique, big city, and locality
- Location: Cabo Delgado Province, Northern Mozambique, Mozambique, Southern Africa, Africa
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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
UN/LOCODE
MZ POL
Open location code
5HV22GGC+HJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Pemba” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ፔምባ”
- Arabic: “بيمبا”
- Armenian: “Պեմբա”
- Asturian: “Pemba”
- Azerbaijani: “Pemba”
- Basque: “Pemba”
- Bengali: “পেম্বা”
- Catalan: “Pemba”
- Cebuano: “Pemba (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Pemba”
- Chinese: “彭巴”
- Croatian: “Pemba”
- Danish: “Pemba”
- Dutch: “Pemba”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيمبا”
- Esperanto: “Pemba”
- Finnish: “Pemba”
- French: “Pemba”
- Georgian: “პემბა”
- German: “Pemba”
- Greek: “Πέμπα”
- Gujarati: “પેમ્બા”
- Hausa: “Pemba”
- Hindi: “पेम्बा”
- Hungarian: “Pemba”
- Indonesian: “Pemba, Mozambik”
- Indonesian: “Pemba”
- Irish: “Pemba”
- Italian: “Pemba”
- Japanese: “ペンバ”
- Javanese: “Pemba”
- Kannada: “ಪೆಂಬಾ”
- Kazakh: “Пемба”
- Kirghiz: “Пемба”
- Korean: “펨바”
- Latvian: “Pemba”
- Lithuanian: “Pemba”
- Malagasy: “Pemba”
- Malay: “Pemba, Mozambique”
- Malay: “Pemba”
- Marathi: “पेम्बा”
- Northern Frisian: “Pemba”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pemba”
- Norwegian: “Pemba”
- Oromo: “Pemba”
- Panjabi: “ਪੰਬਾ”
- Persian: “پمبا، موزامبیک”
- Persian: “پمبا”
- Polish: “Pemba”
- Portuguese: “Pemba”
- Pushto: “پمبا”
- Romanian: “Pemba, Mozambic”
- Romanian: “Pemba”
- Russian: “Пемба”
- Scots: “Pemba”
- Sinhala: “පෙම්බා”
- Slovenian: “Pemba”
- Somali: “Pemba”
- Spanish: “Pemba”
- Swahili: “Pemba”
- Swedish: “Pemba, Moçambique”
- Swedish: “Pemba”
- Tajik: “Пемба”
- Tamil: “பீபா”
- Tatar: “Пемба”
- Telugu: “పెంబ”
- Thai: “เป็งบา”
- Turkish: “Pemba”
- Ukrainian: “Пемба”
- Urdu: “پیمبا، موزمبیق”
- Uzbek: “Pemba”
- Venetian: “Pemba”
- Vietnamese: “Pemba”
- Wu Chinese: “彭巴”
- Yue Chinese: “奔巴”
- Zulu: “Pemba, Mozambiki”
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