Malawi
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Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- MW
- ISO alpha-3
- MWI
- ISO numeric
- 454
- FIPS 10-4
- MI
- GeoNames ID
- 927384
Key facts
- Capital
- Lilongwe
- Area
- 118,480 km²
- Population
- 17,563,749
- Currency
- Kwacha (MWK)
- Calling code
- +265
- Top-level domain
- .mw
- Official languages
- ny,yao,tum,swk
Continent
- Name
- Africa
- Code
- AF
- In this dataset
- 58 countries
Location
- Latitude
- -13.5
- Longitude
- 34
- Min latitude
- -17.135335387999902
- Min longitude
- 32.66330814700012
- Max latitude
- -9.381235046999876
- Max longitude
- 35.90429895000011
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/MW?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 118480,
"capital": "Lilongwe",
"continent_code": "AF",
"currency_code": "MWK",
"iso3_code": "MWI",
"iso_code": "MW",
"name": "Malawi",
"population": 17563749
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/MW/regions/v1/cities?country=MW/v1/postal-codes?country=MW/v1/timezones?country=MW
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- ملاوي
- Chinese
- 马拉维
- English
- Malawi
- French
- Malawi
- German
- Malawi
- Hindi
- मलावी
- Italian
- Malawi
- Japanese
- マラウイ
- Korean
- 말라위
- Portuguese
- Malauí
- Russian
- Малави
- Spanish
- Malaui
- Total language variants
- 140
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Africa/Blantyre | UTC+02:00 | UTC+02:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- ######
- Pattern
^(\d{6})$
First-level administrative regions
- Southern Region
- Central Region
- Northern Region
3 of 3 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Lilongwe | 1,115,815 |
| Blantyre | 902,588 |
| Mzuzu | 249,564 |
| Zomba | 118,440 |
| Karonga | 69,486 |
| Kasungu | 66,152 |
| Mangochi | 60,338 |
| Salima | 41,492 |
| Liwonde | 41,077 |
| Balaka | 40,950 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 7,980
- First-level regions
- 3
- Postal codes
- 491
- Name languages
- 140
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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