Mossamedes

Moçâmedes is a city in southwestern , and the capital of . The city's current population is 345,987. Founded in 1840 by the Portuguese colonial administration, the city was named Namibe between 1985 and 2016.
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  • Type: City with 162,000 residents
  • Description: city in Angola
  • Also known as: “AONBE150101”, “Mocamedes”, “Moçamedes”, “Moçâmedes”, “Mosamedišas”, “Mossâmedes”, “Mozamedes”, “Ναμίμπε”, “Масамэдыш”, “Моссамедес”, “Намиб”, and “纳米贝”
  • Historically known as: “Namibe”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Moçâmedes and Diocese of Namibe.

Railway station
The Railway is an 860 km railway line in , between and .

The Roman Catholic is a Latin diocese in the .

Fort
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.

Mossamedes

Latitude
-15.1951° or 15° 11′ 42″ south
Longitude
12.1458° or 12° 8′ 45″ east
Population
162,000
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
IATA airport code
MSZ
UN/LOCODE
AO MOS and AO MSZ
Open location code
5FPJR43W+X8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 331386368
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3347019
Wiki­data ID
Q221914
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mossamedes” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Moçâmedes”
  • Afrikaans: “Namibe”
  • Amharic: “ሞሳመደስ”
  • Arabic: “موسامديس”
  • Arabic: “موساميدس”
  • Arabic: “ناميبي”
  • Armenian: “Մոսամեդիշ”
  • Asturian: “Moçâmedes”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mossamedes”
  • Belarusian: “Намібэ”
  • Bengali: “নামিবে”
  • Bengali: “মোসামেদেস”
  • Breton: “Namibe”
  • Bulgarian: “Мосамедиш”
  • Bulgarian: “Намибе”
  • Catalan: “Namibe”
  • Cebuano: “Namibe (kapital sa lalawigan sa Angola)”
  • Cebuano: “Namibe”
  • Chinese: “木萨米迪什”
  • Chinese: “木薩米迪什”
  • Chinese: “納米貝”
  • Croatian: “Namibe”
  • Czech: “Moçâmedes”
  • Czech: “Namib”
  • Dagbani: “Moçâmedes”
  • Danish: “Namibe”
  • Dutch: “Moçâmedes”
  • Dutch: “Namibe” (historical)
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ناميبى”
  • Esperanto: “Namibe”
  • Estonian: “Namibe” (historical)
  • Finnish: “Moçâmedes”
  • Finnish: “Namibe” (historical)
  • French: “Moçâmedes”
  • French: “Mossamedes”
  • Georgian: “ნამიბე”
  • German: “Moçâmedes”
  • German: “Namibe” (historical)
  • Greek: “Μοσάμεντες”
  • Gujarati: “નમીબે”
  • Hausa: “Moçâmedes”
  • Hausa: “Mossamedes”
  • Hindi: “नामईबे”
  • Hindi: “मोसामेदेस”
  • Hungarian: “Moçâmedes”
  • Hungarian: “Namibe”
  • Indonesian: “Mossamedes”
  • Indonesian: “Namibe”
  • Irish: “Moçâmedes”
  • Italian: “Moçâmedes”
  • Italian: “Namibe”
  • Japanese: “ナミベ”
  • Japanese: “モサメデス”
  • Japanese: “モザメデス”
  • Javanese: “Mossamedes”
  • Kannada: “ನಾಮಿಬೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Мосамедес”
  • Kirghiz: “Мосамедес”
  • Kongo: “Namibe”
  • Korean: “나미브”
  • Korean: “모사메드스”
  • Korean: “모자 메데스”
  • Latvian: “Namibe”
  • Lithuanian: “Mosamedesas”
  • Lithuanian: “Namibė”
  • Luxembourgish: “Moçâmedes”
  • Malagasy: “Moçâmedes”
  • Malay: “Mossamedes”
  • Malay: “Namibe”
  • Marathi: “नामीबे”
  • Northern Frisian: “Namibe”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Namibe”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Moçâmedes”
  • Norwegian: “Moçâmedes”
  • Oromo: “Mossamedes”
  • Ossetian: “Мосамедиш”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੋਸਾਮੇਦੇਸ”
  • Persian: “نامیبه، آنگولا”
  • Persian: “نامیبه”
  • Polish: “Moçâmedes”
  • Polish: “Namibe” (historical)
  • Portuguese: “Moçâmedes”
  • Portuguese: “Namibe” (historical)
  • Pushto: “موسامیدس”
  • Romanian: “Namibe”
  • Russian: “Мосамедиш”
  • Russian: “Намибе”
  • Serbian: “Namibe”
  • Serbian: “Намибе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Namibe”
  • Sinhala: “නැමිබේ”
  • Somali: “Moçâmedes”
  • Somali: “Mossamedes”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نامیبه، آنقولا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نامیبه”
  • Spanish: “Moçâmedes”
  • Spanish: “Mossamedes”
  • Swahili: “Moçâmedes”
  • Swahili: “Mossamedes”
  • Swedish: “Moçâmedes”
  • Swedish: “Namibe” (historical)
  • Tagalog: “Moçâmedes”
  • Tajik: “Мосамедес”
  • Tamil: “நாமைப்”
  • Tatar: “Мосамедес”
  • Telugu: “నమిబె”
  • Thai: “มูซามือดึช”
  • Turkish: “Mossamedes”
  • Turkish: “Namibe”
  • Ukrainian: “Мозамэдес”
  • Ukrainian: “Мосамедіш”
  • Ukrainian: “Намібе”
  • Urdu: “نامیبے”
  • Uzbek: “Moçâmedes”
  • Uzbek: “Mossamedes”
  • Venetian: “Namibe”
  • Vietnamese: “Moçâmedes”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Moçâmedes”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Namibe”
  • Western Panjabi: “نامیبے”
  • Zulu: “Moçâmedes”

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