Zomba

Zomba is a small town in about 1 hr from Blantyre. It was the capital of Malawi until Hastings Kamuzu Banda, the first president, moved the capital to Lilongwe.
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  • City with 101,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 949 metres (3,114 feet)
  • …is also known as “Zomba, Malawi”
  • Description: city in the southern parts of Malawi

Places of Interest

Highlights include Zomba Central Hospital and Naisi.
is a tertiary referral hospital in Zomba, .
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Zomba

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Latitude
-15.3863° or 15° 23′ 11″ south
Longitude
35.3268° or 35° 19′ 37″ east
Open location code
5GPQJ87G+FP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 265772769
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
923295
Wiki­data ID
Q219117

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Zomba” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Zomba”
  • Arabic: “زومبا، ملاوي”
  • Arabic: “زومبا”
  • Asturian: “Zomba”
  • Belarusian: “Зомба”
  • Bengali: “জম্বা”
  • Bengali: “জোম্বা, মালাবি”
  • Breton: “Zomba”
  • Bulgarian: “Зомба”
  • Catalan: “Zomba”
  • Cebuano: “Zomba”
  • Chinese: “松巴”
  • Czech: “Zomba”
  • Danish: “Zomba”
  • Dutch: “Zomba”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “زومبا”
  • Esperanto: “Zomba”
  • Esperanto: “Zombo”
  • Estonian: “Zomba”
  • Finnish: “Zomba”
  • French: “Zomba”
  • Galician: “Zomba”
  • Georgian: “ზომბა (ქალაქი)”
  • Georgian: “ზომბა”
  • German: “Zomba”
  • Greek: “Ζόμπα”
  • Guarani: “Sómba”
  • Gujarati: “ઝોમ્બા, માલવી”
  • Gujarati: “ઝોમ્બા, માલાવી”
  • Hausa: “Zomba”
  • Hebrew: “זומבה”
  • Hindi: “ज़ोम्बा”
  • Hindi: “झोंबा, मलावी”
  • Icelandic: “Zomba”
  • Indonesian: “Zomba”
  • Irish: “Zomba”
  • Italian: “Zomba”
  • Japanese: “ゾンバ”
  • Kannada: “ಜೊಂಬಾ”
  • Korean: “좀바”
  • Latvian: “Zomba, Malāvija”
  • Latvian: “Zomba”
  • Lithuanian: “Zomba”
  • Malay: “Zomba”
  • Marathi: “झोंबा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Zomba”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zomba”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zomba”
  • Norwegian: “Zomba”
  • Nyanja: “Zomba, Malaŵi”
  • Nyanja: “Zomba”
  • Ossetian: “Зомбæ”
  • Persian: “زومبا (شهر)”
  • Persian: “زومبا، مالاوی”
  • Persian: “زومبا”
  • Polish: “Zomba”
  • Portuguese: “Zomba”
  • Romanian: “Zomba, Malawi”
  • Romanian: “Zomba”
  • Russian: “Зомба”
  • Serbian: “Зомба”
  • Sinhala: “සොම්බා මලාවි”
  • Sinhala: “සොම්බා,මලාවි”
  • Slovenian: “Zomba”
  • South Azerbaijani: “زومبا، مالاوی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “زومبا”
  • Spanish: “Zomba”
  • Swahili: “Zomba”
  • Swedish: “Zomba, Malawi”
  • Swedish: “Zomba”
  • Tamil: “சோம்பா , மாலவி”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்சாம்பா, மலாவி”
  • Telugu: “జోంబా, మాలావి”
  • Thai: “เขตซอมบา”
  • Thai: “ซอมบา”
  • Tumbuka: “Zomba”
  • Turkish: “Zomba, Malavi”
  • Turkish: “Zomba”
  • Ukrainian: “Зомба”
  • Urdu: “زومبا، ملاوی”
  • Uzbek: “Zomba”
  • Venetian: “Zomba”
  • Vietnamese: “Zomba, Malawi”
  • Vietnamese: “Zomba, Tỉnh Malawi”
  • Welsh: “Zomba, Malawi”
  • Welsh: “Zomba”
  • Zulu: “Zomba, Malawi”
  • Zulu: “Zomba”

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