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Malawi

Malawi is a small, landlocked country in whose eastern border mostly follows Lake Malawi, the third largest lake on the continent. It's described as the "Warm Heart of Africa", referring to the friendliness of the people.
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is the capital of Malawi. It's a very green city, to the extent that sometimes you wonder if there is a city centre at all as buildings in the new town at least are divided by patches of grassy land and trees.

is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce, and its second largest city, with a population of 800,264 as of 2018.

is a small town in Malawi about 1 hr from Blantyre.

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is the southern most region of Malawi, extending south from Lake Malawi and including Lakes Malombe and Chilwa.

lies to the west of the northern half of Lake Malawi.

lies on the southern part of the eastern shores of Lake Malawi and is home to the capital of .

Malawi

Latitude of center
-13.3255° or 13° 19' 32" south
Longitude of center
34.0137° or 34° 0' 49" east
Population
14,200,000
Area
118,480 km² (45,745 miles²)
Elevation
1,180 metres (3,871 feet)
Capital
Currency
Kwacha (MWK)
Phone code
.mw
Internet domain
265
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424311645
Open­Street­Map Feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
927384
Wiki­data ID
Q1020
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Also Known As

  • Abkhazian: Malawi
  • Abkhazian: Ареспублика Малави
  • Abkhazian: Малави
  • Achinese: Malawi
  • Afar: Malavi
  • Afrikaans: Malawi
  • Akan: Malawi
  • Albanian: Malavi
  • Albanian: Malevia
  • Amharic: Malawi
  • Amharic: ማላዊ
  • Amis: Malawi
  • Angika: मालावी
  • Arabic: Malawi
  • Arabic: جمهورية مالاوي
  • Arabic: مالاوي
  • Arabic: ملاوي
  • Aragonese: Malaui
  • Aragonese: Malawi
  • Armenian: Մալավի
  • Arpitan: Malavi
  • Assamese: মালাৱি
  • Asturian: Malaui
  • Atayal: Malawi
  • Avaric: Malawia
  • Azerbaijani: Malavi
  • Balinese: Malawi
  • Bambara: Malawi
  • Banjar: Malawi
  • Bashkir: Малави
  • Basque: Malawi
  • Bavarian: Malawi
  • Belarusian: Малаві
  • Bengali: মালাউই
  • Bhojpuri: मलावी
  • Bhojpuri: मलावी रिपब्लिक
  • Bhojpuri: रिपब्लिक ऑफ मलावी
  • Bishnupriya: মালাবি
  • Bislama: Malawi
  • Bosnian: Malavi
  • Breton: Malawi
  • Bulgarian: Малави
  • Burmese: မာလဝီနိုင်ငံ
  • Burmese: မာလာဝီ
  • Catalan: Malawi
  • Cebuano: Malawi
  • Central Bikol: Malawi
  • Central Kurdish: مالاوی
  • Central Kurdish: کۆماری مالاوی
  • Chavacano: Malawi
  • Chechen: Малави
  • Cheyenne: Malawi
  • Chinese: Malawi
  • Chinese: Mǎlāwéi
  • Chinese: 馬拉威
  • Chinese: 馬拉維
  • Chinese: 马拉维 / 馬拉威
  • Chinese: 马拉维
  • Chinese: 马拉维共和国
  • Chuvash: Малави
  • Cornish: Malawi
  • Corsican: Malaui
  • Crimean Tatar: Malavi
  • Croatian: Malavi
  • Czech: Malawi
  • Czech: Ňasko
  • Dagbani: Malawi
  • Danish: Malawi
  • Dhivehi: މަލާވީ
  • Dimli (individual language): Malawi
  • Dotyali: मलावी
  • Dutch: MW
  • Dutch: MWI
  • Dutch: Malawi
  • Dzongkha: མ་ལ་ཝི
  • Eastern Mari: Малави
  • Egyptian Arabic: مالاوى
  • English: MAW
  • English: Republic of Malawi
  • English: mw
  • Esperanto: MW
  • Esperanto: Malavio
  • Esperanto: Respubliko Malavio
  • Estonian: Malawi
  • Estonian: Malawi Vabariik
  • Ewe: Malawi
  • Ewe: Malawi nutome
  • Extremaduran: Malaui
  • Farefare: Malawi
  • Faroese: Malavi
  • Fiji Hindi: Malawi
  • Finnish: Malawi
  • Finnish: Malawin tasavalta
  • French: MW
  • French: Malawi
  • French: République du Malawi
  • French: la République du Malawi
  • Fulah: Malaawi
  • Fulah: Malawi
  • Gagauz: Malavi
  • Galician: Malaui - Malawi
  • Galician: Malaui
  • Galician: Malawi
  • Ganda: Malawi
  • Georgian: მალავი
  • German: Malawi
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: Malawi
  • Greek: Δημοκρατία του Μαλάουι
  • Greek: Μαλάουι
  • Guarani: Maláui
  • Guianese Creole French: Malawi
  • Gujarati: મલાવી
  • Gujarati: માલાવી
  • Haitian: Malawi
  • Hakka Chinese: Malawi
  • Hausa: Malawi
  • Hebrew: מלאווי
  • Hindi: मलावी
  • Hindi: मलावी गणराज्य
  • Hungarian: Malawi
  • Hungarian: Malawi Köztársaság
  • Icelandic: Malaví
  • Ido: Malawi
  • Igbo: Malawi
  • Iloko: Malawi
  • Inari Sami: Malawi
  • Inari Sami: Malawi täsiväldi
  • Indonesian: Malawi
  • Interlingua: Malawi
  • Interlingue: Malawi
  • Irish: An Mhaláiv
  • Irish: an Mhaláiv
  • Italian: Malawi
  • Jamaican Creole English: Malaawi
  • Japanese: マラウィ
  • Japanese: マラウイ
  • Japanese: マラウイ共和国
  • Javanese: Malawi
  • Kabiyè: Malawii
  • Kabyle: Malawi
  • Kalaallisut: Malawi
  • Kalmyk: Малавудин Орн
  • Kannada: ಮಲಾವಿ
  • Kara-Kalpak: Malavi
  • Kashmiri: ملاوی
  • Kashmiri: मलावी
  • Kazakh: Малави
  • Kazakh: Малави Республикасы
  • Khmer: ម៉ាឡាវី
  • Kikuyu: Malawi
  • Kinyarwanda: Malawi
  • Kirghiz: Малави
  • Kongo: Malawi
  • Korean: 말라위
  • Kotava: Malawia
  • Kurdish: Malavî
  • Kurdish: Malawî
  • Kurdish: مالاوی
  • Ladin: Malaui
  • Lao: Malawi
  • Lao: ມາລາວີ
  • Latgalian: Malaveja
  • Latin: Malavia
  • Latin: Malavium
  • Latvian: Malāvija
  • Lezghian: Мала́ви Респу́блика
  • Lezghian: Малави
  • Ligurian: Malawi
  • Limburgan: Malawi
  • Lingala: Malawi
  • Lingua Franca Nova: Malaui
  • Literary Chinese: 馬拉威
  • Lithuanian: Malavis
  • Livvi: Malavi
  • Lombard: Malawi
  • Low German: Malawi
  • Low German: Republik Malawi
  • Lower Sorbian: Malawi
  • Luba-Katanga: Malawi
  • Luxembourgish: Malawi
  • Macedonian: Малави
  • Maithili: मलावी
  • Malagasy: Malaoì
  • Malagasy: Malaoỳ
  • Malagasy: Malawi
  • Malay: Malawi
  • Malayalam: മലാവി
  • Maltese: Malawi
  • Maltese: Repubblika tal-Malawi
  • Maltese: il-Malawi
  • Manipuri: ꯃꯥꯂꯥꯋꯤ
  • Manx: Malawi
  • Maori: Marāwi
  • Marathi: मलावी
  • Mazanderani: مالاوی
  • Min Dong Chinese: Malawi
  • Min Nan Chinese: Malawi
  • Minangkabau: Malawi
  • Mingrelian: მალავი
  • Moksha: Малави
  • Mongolian: Малави
  • Mongolian: ꯃꯥꯂꯥꯋꯤ
  • Moroccan Arabic: مالاوي
  • Nauru: Malawi
  • Navajo: Kiniikǫʼí Dineʼé Bikéyah
  • Nepali: मलावी
  • Nepali: मालावी
  • Newari: मलावी
  • North Ndebele: Malawi
  • Northern Frisian: Malaawi
  • Northern Sami: Malawi
  • Northern Sami: Malawi dásseváldi
  • Norwegian: Malawi
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Malawi
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Malawi
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Malawi
  • Novial: Malawi
  • Nyanja: Malaŵi
  • Occitan (post 1500): Malawi
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): Malawi
  • Oriya: ମଲାବୀ
  • Oriya: ମଲାୱୀ
  • Oriya: ମାଲୱି
  • Oromo: Maalaawii
  • Oromo: Maalaawwii
  • Ossetian: Малави
  • Pali: मलावी
  • Pampanga: Malawi
  • Panjabi: ਮਲਾਵੀ
  • Papiamento: Malawi
  • Pedi: Malawi
  • Persian: مالاوی
  • Piemontese: Malawi
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: Malaawi
  • Polish: Malawi
  • Portuguese: Malaui
  • Portuguese: Malauí
  • Portuguese: Malavi
  • Portuguese: Malawi
  • Portuguese: Maláui
  • Portuguese: Malávi
  • Portuguese: República do Malawi
  • Pushto: مالاوي
  • Quechua: Malawi
  • Romanian: Malawi
  • Romansh: Malawi
  • Rundi: Malawi
  • Russia Buriat: Малави
  • Russian: Малави
  • Russian: Республика Малави
  • Sakizaya: Malawi
  • Samoan: Malawi
  • Samogitian: Malavis
  • Sango: Malawïi
  • Sanskrit: मलावी
  • Sardinian: Malawi
  • Saterfriesisch: Malawi
  • Scots: Malawi
  • Scottish Gaelic: Malabhaidh
  • Serbian: Malavi
  • Serbian: Малави
  • Serbian: Република Малави
  • Serbo-Croatian: Malavi
  • Shan: မိူင်းမႃႇလႃႇဝီႇ
  • Shona: Malawi
  • Sicilian: Malaui
  • Silesian: Malawi
  • Sindhi: مالاوي
  • Sindhi: ملاوي
  • Sinhala: මලාවි
  • Skolt Sami: Malaaw
  • Skolt Sami: Malaaw tääʹssväʹldd
  • Slovak: Malawi
  • Slovak: Malawijská republika
  • Slovenian: MAW
  • Slovenian: Malavi
  • Slovenian: Republika Malavi
  • Slovenian: mw
  • Somali: Malaawi
  • South Azerbaijani: مالاوی
  • Southern Sotho: Malawi
  • Southern Sotho: Malaŵi
  • Spanish: Malaui
  • Spanish: Malawi
  • Spanish: Republica de Malaui
  • Spanish: República de Malaui
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⵎⴰⵍⴰⵡⵉ
  • Sundanese: Malawi
  • Swahili: Malawi
  • Swati: IMalawi
  • Swedish: Malawi
  • Swedish: Republiken Malawi
  • Swiss German: Malawi
  • Tagalog: Malawi
  • Tajik: Малави
  • Tajik: Моловӣ
  • Talysh: Malavi
  • Tamil: மலாவி
  • Tamil: மாலவி
  • Taroko: Malawi
  • Tatar: Малави
  • Telugu: మలావి
  • Telugu: మలావీ
  • Thai: ประเทศมาลาวี
  • Thai: มาลาวี
  • Tibetan: མ་ལ་ཝི།
  • Tibetan: མཱ་ལཱ་ཝི།
  • Tigrinya: ማላዊ
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): Malaui
  • Tosk Albanian: Malawi
  • Tsonga: Malawi
  • Tumbuka: Malawi
  • Tumbuka: Malaŵi
  • Tunisian Arabic: مالاوي
  • Turkish: Malavi
  • Turkmen: Malawi
  • Twi: Malawi
  • Udmurt: Малави
  • Uighur: مالاۋى
  • Ukrainian: Малаві
  • Ukrainian: Республіка Малаві
  • Upper Sorbian: Malawi
  • Urdu: ملاوی
  • Uzbek: Malavi
  • Venetian: Malawi
  • Venetian: Małaui
  • Veps: Malavi
  • Vietnamese: Ma-la-uy (Malawi)
  • Vietnamese: Ma-la-uy
  • Vietnamese: Malawi
  • Vlaams: Malawi
  • Vlax Romani: Malawi
  • Volapük: Malaviyän
  • Võro: Malawi
  • Waray (Philippines): Malawi
  • Welsh: Malawi
  • Western Frisian: Malawi
  • Western Frisian: Malawy
  • Western Panjabi: ملاوی
  • Wolof: Malawi
  • Wu Chinese: 馬拉維
  • Yakut: Малауи
  • Yiddish: מאַלאַווי
  • Yiddish: מאלאווי
  • Yoruba: Malawi
  • Yoruba: Màláwì
  • Yue Chinese: 馬拉維
  • Zeeuws: Malawi
  • Zhuang: Malawi
  • Zulu: IMalawi
  • Zulu: iMalawi
  • Dziko la Malaŵi
  • Malahui
  • Nyasaland
  • Republic of Malaŵi
  • ma Malawi

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