Merca
Merca is the capital city of the Lower Shebelle province of Somalia, a historic port city in the region. It is located approximately 109 km to the southwest of the nation's capital Mogadishu.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 230,000 residents
- Description: port city in the southern Lower Shebelle province of Somalia
- Also known as: “Marca” and “مركة”
Merca
- Category: locality
- Location: Lower Shabeelle, Somalia, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
1.7148° or 1° 42′ 53″ northLongitude
44.7699° or 44° 46′ 12″ eastPopulation
230,000Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)United Nations Location Code
SO MEROpen location code
6HH6PQ79+WXOpenStreetMap ID
node 36155827OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Merca” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مركا”
- Arabic: “مركة”
- Asturian: “Merca”
- Catalan: “Marka”
- Cebuano: “Marka”
- Chinese: “木鲁旰”
- Chinese: “马尔卡”
- Czech: “Marka (město)”
- Czech: “Marka”
- Danish: “Merca”
- Dutch: “Marka”
- Esperanto: “Merka”
- Finnish: “Merka”
- French: “Merka”
- Georgian: “მარკა”
- German: “Merka”
- Hebrew: “מרקה”
- Hindi: “मार्का”
- Hungarian: “Merka”
- Indonesian: “Marka, Somalia”
- Indonesian: “Marka”
- Italian: “Merca”
- Japanese: “マルカ”
- Kazakh: “Марка қаласы”
- Korean: “마르카”
- Latin: “Merca”
- Lithuanian: “Merka”
- Malayalam: “മെർക്ക”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Marka”
- Norwegian: “Marka”
- Persian: “مرکه”
- Polish: “Marka”
- Portuguese: “Merca”
- Romanian: “Merca, Somalia”
- Romanian: “Merca”
- Russian: “Марка”
- Scots: “Merca”
- Somali: “Marka”
- South Azerbaijani: “مرکه”
- Spanish: “Merca”
- Swahili: “Merka”
- Swedish: “Merca”
- Thai: “มาร์คา”
- Turkish: “Merka”
- Ukrainian: “Марка”
- Urdu: “مرکہ”
- Vietnamese: “Merca”
- Waray (Philippines): “Merca”
- Zulu: “Merca”
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