Kismayo
Kismayo is a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia. It is the de facto capital of the autonomous Jubaland region. The city is situated 528 kilometres southwest of the capital Mogadishu, near the mouth of the Jubba River, where it empties into the Indian Ocean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 167,000 residents
- Description: port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia and capital of Jubaland
- Also known as: “Chisimayu”, “Kismaanyo”, and “Kismānyó”
Kismayo
- Categories: port city and locality
- Location: Lower Juba, Gedo, Somalia, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-0.3602° or 0° 21′ 37″ southLongitude
42.5409° or 42° 32′ 27″ eastPopulation
167,000Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)IATA airport code
KMUUnited Nations Location Code
SO KMUOpen location code
6HF4JGQR+W9OpenStreetMap ID
node 36161074OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
55671Wikidata ID
Q270787
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Kismayo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كسماوي”
- Arabic: “كسمايو”
- Arabic: “كيسمايو”
- Armenian: “Կիսմայո”
- Asturian: “Kismayo”
- Bengali: “কিসমায়ু”
- Bulgarian: “Кисмайо”
- Catalan: “Chisimaio”
- Catalan: “Chisimayo”
- Catalan: “Chisimayu”
- Catalan: “Kishimayo”
- Catalan: “Kishimayu”
- Catalan: “Kishmayo”
- Catalan: “Kishmayu”
- Catalan: “Kisimayo”
- Catalan: “Kisimayu”
- Catalan: “Kismaayo”
- Catalan: “Kismaayu”
- Catalan: “Kismayo”
- Catalan: “Kismayu”
- Cebuano: “Kismayo”
- Chinese: “基斯馬尤”
- Chinese: “基斯马尤”
- Croatian: “Kismaayo”
- Czech: “Kismaayo”
- Danish: “Chisimayu”
- Danish: “Kismaayo”
- Dutch: “Chisimayu”
- Dutch: “Kismaayo”
- Dutch: “Kismayo”
- Dutch: “Kismayu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيسمايو”
- Esperanto: “Chisimaio”
- Esperanto: “Kismaayo”
- Esperanto: “Kismajo”
- Estonian: “Kismaayo”
- Finnish: “Kismayo”
- Finnish: “Kismayu”
- French: “Kismaayo”
- French: “Kismayo”
- French: “Kysmayo”
- Galician: “Kismaayo”
- Georgian: “კისმაიო”
- German: “Chisimaayo”
- German: “Chisimayu”
- German: “Kismaaju”
- German: “Kismaayo”
- German: “Kismaayu”
- German: “Kismajo”
- German: “Kismaju”
- German: “Kismayo”
- German: “Kismayu”
- Greek: “Κισμάγιο”
- Gujarati: “કિસ્માયો”
- Hebrew: “קיסמאיו”
- Hindi: “किस्मायो”
- Hungarian: “Kismaayo”
- Icelandic: “Kismajó”
- Igbo: “Kismayo”
- Indonesian: “Kismaayo”
- Indonesian: “Kismayo”
- Indonesian: “Kismayu”
- Italian: “Chisimaio”
- Italian: “Kisimayo”
- Italian: “Kismaayo”
- Italian: “Kismayo”
- Italian: “Kismayu”
- Japanese: “キスマユ”
- Japanese: “キスマヨ”
- Kannada: “ಕಿಸ್ಮಯೊ”
- Kazakh: “Kïsmaýo qalası”
- Kazakh: “Кисмайо қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Кисмайо”
- Kazakh: “كىيسمايو قالاسى”
- Korean: “키스마요”
- Latvian: “Kismajo”
- Lithuanian: “Kisimajas”
- Lithuanian: “Kismaju”
- Lithuanian: “Kismajus”
- Malay: “Kismayo”
- Marathi: “किस्मेयो”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chisimayu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kismaajo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kismaayo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kismayo”
- Norwegian: “Kismaayo”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kismayo”
- Persian: “کیسمایو”
- Polish: “Chisimayu”
- Polish: “Kisimaju”
- Polish: “Kismaayo”
- Polish: “Kismaju”
- Polish: “Kismayo”
- Polish: “Kismayu”
- Portuguese: “Kismaayo”
- Portuguese: “Kismayo”
- Romanian: “Kismayo”
- Russian: “Кисмайо”
- Sinhala: “කිස්මයෝ”
- Slovenian: “Kismajo”
- Somali: “Kismaayo”
- Somali: “Kismayo”
- South Azerbaijani: “کیسمایو”
- Spanish: “Chisimayu”
- Spanish: “Kismaayo”
- Spanish: “Kismayo”
- Spanish: “Kismayu”
- Swahili: “Kismayu”
- Swedish: “Chisimayu”
- Swedish: “Kismaayo”
- Swedish: “Kismayo”
- Swedish: “Kismayu”
- Tamil: “கிசமயோ”
- Telugu: “కిస్మయో”
- Thai: “คิสมายอ”
- Turkish: “Kismaayo”
- Turkish: “Kismayo”
- Ukrainian: “Кісмайо”
- Urdu: “کیسمایو”
- Vietnamese: “Kismayo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kismayo”
- Zulu: “Kismayo”
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