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Peru

Moquegua Department

Moquegua is a department and region in southern that extends from the coast to the highlands. Its capital is the city of , which is among the main Peruvian cities for its high rates of GDP and national education.
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  • Type: State with 162,000 residents
  • Description: department of Peru
  • Also known as: “Departamento Moquehua”, “Department of Moquegua”, “Moquegua department”, “Moquegua region”, “Moquegua, Peru”, and “Provincia Litoral de Moquegua”

Moquegua Department

Latitude
-16.8333° or 16° 50′ south
Longitude
-70.9167° or 70° 55′ west
Population
162,000
Elevation
2,267 metres (7,438 feet)
Open location code
57MF538M+M8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1230775270
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3934607
Wiki­data ID
Q208182
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Moquegua Department” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إقليم موكيغوا”
  • Armenian: “Մոքեգուա”
  • Aymara: “Moqwegwa jach’a suyu”
  • Aymara: “Mukiwa jach’a suyu”
  • Belarusian: “Макегуа”
  • Belarusian: “Макеґуа”
  • Belarusian: “Рэгіён Макегуа”
  • Bengali: “মুকেগোয়া অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Мокегуа”
  • Catalan: “Departament de Moquegua”
  • Catalan: “Departamento de Moquegua”
  • Catalan: “Regió de Moquegua”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento de Moquegua”
  • Chinese: “Moquegua Khu”
  • Chinese: “莫克瓜大区”
  • Chinese: “莫克瓜大區”
  • Czech: “Moquegua”
  • Danish: “Moquegua”
  • Dutch: “Moquegua regio”
  • Dutch: “Moquegua”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اقليم موكيجوا”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Moquegua”
  • Finnish: “Moqueguan alue”
  • French: “Moquegua”
  • Georgian: “მოკეგა”
  • Georgian: “მოკეგუა”
  • Georgian: “მოკეგუის რეგიონი”
  • Georgian: “მონკეგა”
  • German: “Departamento de Moquegua”
  • German: “Moquegua”
  • German: “PE-MOQ”
  • German: “Region Moquegua”
  • Greek: “Μοκέγκουα”
  • Gujarati: “મોકેગુઆ પ્રદેશ”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז מוקגואה”
  • Hindi: “मोकेगुआ क्षेत्र”
  • Hungarian: “Moquegua megye”
  • Indonesian: “Departamento Moquegua”
  • Indonesian: “Moquegua region”
  • Indonesian: “Moquegua”
  • Indonesian: “Region Moquegua”
  • Indonesian: “Región Moquegua”
  • Italian: “Moquegua”
  • Italian: “regione di Moquegua”
  • Italian: “Regione di Moquegua”
  • Japanese: “モケグア”
  • Japanese: “モケグア県”
  • Japanese: “モケグア郡”
  • Kannada: “ಮೊಕುಗುವಾ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Korean: “모케과주”
  • Ladino: “Moquegua”
  • Latin: “Moquegua Regio”
  • Latin: “Regio Moqueguensis”
  • Latvian: “Mokegvas departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Mokegvos departamentas”
  • Macedonian: “Мокегва”
  • Malay: “Negeri Moquegua”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Moquegua”
  • Marathi: “मोकेगुआ प्रदेश”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Moquegua Khu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Moquegua-regionen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Moquegua”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Moquegua-regionen”
  • Norwegian: “Moquegua”
  • Persian: “منطقه موکگوا”
  • Polish: “Moquegua”
  • Polish: “Region Moquegua”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de moquegua”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de Moquegua”
  • Portuguese: “Moquegua”
  • Quechua: “Muqiwa suyu”
  • Romanian: “Moquegua”
  • Russian: “Мокегуа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Moquegua (departman)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Moquegua”
  • Sinhala: “මොකෙගුවා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, පේරු”
  • Sinhala: “මොක්වෙගුවා කලාපය”
  • Slovenian: “Departamento de Moquegua”
  • Slovenian: “Departma Moquegua”
  • Slovenian: “Moquegua”
  • Slovenian: “PE-MOQ”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Moquegua”
  • Spanish: “Región de Moquegua”
  • Spanish: “Región Moquegua”
  • Swedish: “Moquegua”
  • Tamil: “மொயூகுஞ் பகுதி”
  • Telugu: “మాక్వెగా ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “Moquegua Region”
  • Thai: “แคว้นโมเกกัว”
  • Turkish: “Moquegua Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Мокегуа”
  • Ukrainian: “Мокеґуа”
  • Urdu: “موکیگوا ریجن”
  • Urdu: “موکیگوا علاقہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực Moquegua”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Moquegua”
  • Western Armenian: “Մոգեքուա”
  • Western Panjabi: “موکیوکوا”
  • Wu Chinese: “莫克瓜大区”
  • “Moquegua”

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