Massawa
Massawa or Mitsiwa is a port city in the Northern Red Sea region of Eritrea, located on the Red Sea at the northern end of the Gulf of Zula beside the Dahlak Archipelago.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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‘”, “Massau”, “Massauah”, “Massowa”, “Massowah”, “Masuah”, “Mesewa”, “Miṣṣiwa”, “Mitsewa”, “Mitsiwa”, “Mitsiwa’e”, and “Mossowah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Massawa-Taulud and Campo di Marte railway station.
Massawa-Taulud
Railway station
Photo: Voice of Clam, Public domain.
Massawa-Taulud is a railway station.
Campo di Marte railway station
Railway stop
Photo: Reinhard Dietrich, CC0.
Campo di Marte railway station is a railway stop.
Massawa
- Categories: port city and locality
- Location: Massawa subregion, Northern Red Sea Region, Eritrea, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
15.6032° or 15° 36′ 12″ northLongitude
39.4637° or 39° 27′ 49″ eastPopulation
46,000Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)IATA airport code
MSWUnited Nations Location Code
ER MSWOpen location code
7G7XJF37+7FOpenStreetMap ID
node 288517213OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
330546Wikidata ID
Q275635
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Massawa” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ምጽዋ”
- Arabic: “باضع”
- Arabic: “رأس مدر”
- Arabic: “مصوع”
- Arabic: “مصوّع”
- Armenian: “Մասաուա”
- Asturian: “Massawa”
- Basque: “Massawa”
- Belarusian: “Масава”
- Catalan: “Masawa”
- Catalan: “Masawwa”
- Catalan: “Massaua”
- Catalan: “Massawa”
- Cebuano: “Massawa”
- Chinese: “馬薩瓦”
- Chinese: “馬薩華”
- Chinese: “马萨瓦”
- Croatian: “Massawa”
- Czech: “Massawa”
- Danish: “Massaua”
- Danish: “Massawa”
- Dutch: “Massaua”
- Dutch: “Massauwa”
- Dutch: “Massawa”
- Dutch: “Mitsiwa”
- Dutch: “Mussuwa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مصوع”
- Finnish: “Massaua”
- Finnish: “Massawa”
- French: “Massaoua”
- French: “Massaouah”
- French: “Massawa”
- French: “Metsewa”
- French: “Miṣṣiwa”
- French: “Mitsiwa”
- Galician: “Massaua”
- Georgian: “მასაუა”
- German: “Massaua”
- German: “Massawa”
- German: “Massua”
- German: “Matsewa”
- German: “Mereb Melash”
- German: “Mitsiwa”
- Greek: “Μασάουα”
- Hebrew: “מאסאווה”
- Hebrew: “מיציווה”
- Hebrew: “מסווה”
- Hebrew: “מסוע”
- Hungarian: “Massawa”
- Indonesian: “Massaua”
- Indonesian: “Massawa”
- Irish: “Massawa”
- Italian: “Batsi”
- Italian: “Massaua”
- Italian: “Massauah”
- Italian: “Massawa”
- Italian: “Mitsiwa”
- Japanese: “マッサウア”
- Japanese: “マッサワ”
- Korean: “마사와”
- Latin: “Massava”
- Latin: “Massawa”
- Lithuanian: “Masava”
- Malay: “Massawa”
- Marathi: “बत्सी”
- Marathi: “मासावा”
- Marathi: “मित्सिवा”
- Moksha: “Массава”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Massawa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Massawa”
- Norwegian: “Massawa”
- Persian: “مصوع”
- Polish: “Massaua”
- Polish: “Massawa”
- Polish: “Mitsiwa”
- Portuguese: “Maçuá”
- Portuguese: “Massaua”
- Portuguese: “Massawa”
- Portuguese: “Massawah”
- Romanian: “Massawa”
- Russian: “Массава”
- Russian: “Массауа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Massava”
- Shona: “Massawa”
- Slovenian: “Masava”
- South Azerbaijani: “مصوع”
- Spanish: “Massaua”
- Spanish: “Massawa”
- Spanish: “Mitsiwa”
- Swahili: “Massawa”
- Swedish: “Massaua”
- Swedish: “Massawa”
- Swedish: “Mitsiwa”
- Tigre: “መሰዋዕ”
- Tigre: “ራኣስ ምድር”
- Tigre: “ባጸዕ”
- Tigre: “ባጽዕ”
- Tigrinya: “Mits’iwa”
- Tigrinya: “Mĭts’ĭwwa”
- Tigrinya: “ምጽዋ”
- Tigrinya: “ምጽዋዕ”
- Turkish: “Masava”
- Turkish: “Masavva”
- Turkish: “Massava”
- Turkish: “Massawa”
- 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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