Massawa

Massawa or Mitsiwa is a port city in the of , located on the Red Sea at the northern end of the beside the .
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Photo: Reinhard Dietrich, CC0.
Photo: Reinhard Dietrich, CC0.
  • Type: City with 46,000 residents
  • Description: city on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea
  • Also known as: “Badi”, “Batsi”, “Batsi‘”, “Masawa”, “Masawwa”, “Massaouah”, “Massau”, “Massauah”, “Massauwa”, “Massawah”, “Massowa”, “Massowah”, “Massua”, “Masuah”, “Matsewa”, “Mereb Melash”, “Mesewa”, “Metsewa”, “Miṣṣiwa”, “Mitsewa”, “Mitsiwa”, “Mitsiwa’e”, “Mossowah”, “Mussuwa”, “מיציווה”, “מסווה”, “מסוע”, “باضع”, “رأس مدر”, “مصوّع”, “መሰዋዕ”, “ምጽዋዕ Massawa مصوع”, “ራኣስ ምድር”, “बत्सी”, “मित्सिवा”, and “マッサウア”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Mosque of the Companions and Massawa-Taulud.

Mosque
Photo: Mheidegger, CC BY 4.0.
The , also known as the Ras Medre Mosque, is an open-air in Massawa, Eritrea, located on a small island off the Red Sea coast.

Railway station
Photo: Voice of Clam, Public domain.
is a railway station.

Railway stop
Photo: Reinhard Dietrich, CC0.
is a railway stop.

Massawa

Latitude
15.6032° or 15° 36′ 12″ north
Longitude
39.4637° or 39° 27′ 49″ east
Population
46,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
IATA airport code
MSW
UN/LOCODE
ER MSW
Open location code
7G7XJF37+7F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 288517213
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
330546
Wiki­data ID
Q275635
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Massawa” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ምጽዋ”
  • Arabic: “مصوع”
  • Armenian: “Մասաուա”
  • Asturian: “Massawa”
  • Basque: “Massawa”
  • Belarusian: “Масава”
  • Catalan: “Massaua”
  • Catalan: “Massawa”
  • Cebuano: “Massawa”
  • Chinese: “馬薩瓦”
  • Chinese: “马萨瓦”
  • Croatian: “Massawa”
  • Czech: “Massawa”
  • Danish: “Massaua”
  • Danish: “Massawa”
  • Dutch: “Massawa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مصوع”
  • Finnish: “Massaua”
  • Finnish: “Massawa”
  • French: “Massaoua”
  • Galician: “Massaua”
  • Georgian: “მასაუა”
  • German: “Massaua”
  • German: “Massawa”
  • Greek: “Μασάουα”
  • Hebrew: “מאסאווה”
  • Hungarian: “Massawa”
  • Indonesian: “Massaua”
  • Indonesian: “Massawa”
  • Irish: “Massawa”
  • Italian: “Massaua”
  • Japanese: “マッサワ”
  • Korean: “마사와”
  • Latin: “Massava”
  • Latin: “Massawa”
  • Lithuanian: “Masava”
  • Malay: “Massawa”
  • Marathi: “मासावा”
  • Moksha: “Массава”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Massawa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Massawa”
  • Norwegian: “Massawa”
  • Persian: “مصوع”
  • Polish: “Massaua”
  • Polish: “Massawa”
  • Portuguese: “Maçuá”
  • Romanian: “Massawa”
  • Russian: “Массауа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Massava”
  • Shona: “Massawa”
  • Slovenian: “Masava”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مصوع”
  • Spanish: “Massawa”
  • Swahili: “Massawa”
  • Swedish: “Massawa”
  • Tigre: “ባጸዕ”
  • Tigrinya: “Mits’iwa”
  • Tigrinya: “Mĭts’ĭwwa”
  • Tigrinya: “ምጽዋ”
  • Tigrinya: “ምጽዋዕ”
  • Turkish: “Massava”
  • Ukrainian: “Массава”
  • Ukrainian: “Массауа”
  • Urdu: “مصوع”
  • Venetian: “Massaua”
  • Vietnamese: “Massawa”
  • Welsh: “Massawa”
  • Western Frisian: “Massawa”
  • Yiddish: “מאסאווע”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬薩華”
  • Zulu: “Massawa”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Housing Complex and Old Airport.

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