Mesquita
Mesquita is a municipality of Baixada Fluminense, in the Grande Rio region, state of Rio de Janeiro.Photo: Junius, Public domain.
- Type: City with 167,000 residents
- Description: municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Also known as: “Mesquita, Rio de Janeiro”
- Neighbors: Belford Roxo, Nilópolis, Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, and São João de Meriti
Places of Interest
Highlights include Niélsen Louzada Stadium and Chatuba de Mesquita.
Chatuba de Mesquita
Community center
Photo: Quintinense, Public domain.
Chatuba de Mesquita is a community center.
Estádio Giulite Coutinho
Sports venue
Photo: Junius, Public domain.
Estádio Giulite Coutinho, also known as Estádio Édson Passos, is a multi-use stadium located in the city of Mesquita, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. It is used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of Fluminense, America Football Club and Nova Iguaçu.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Belford Roxo and Nilópolis.
Belford Roxo
Photo: Sir Velpertex di Crantx, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Belford Roxo is a city of Baixada Fluminense, in Grande Rio. It is a part of the metropolitan region of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Nilópolis
Photo: Junius, Public domain.
Nilópolis is a city of Baixada Fluminense, in the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro, state of Rio de Janeiro.
Nova Iguaçu
Photo: Lucio Luiz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nova Iguaçu is a city in Baixada Fluminense, in the metro area of Rio de Janeiro, state of Rio de Janeiro.
Mesquita
- Categories: municipality of Brazil, big city, and locality
- Location: Rio de Janeiro, Southeast, Brazil, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-22.7831° or 22° 46′ 59″ southLongitude
-43.4294° or 43° 25′ 46″ westPopulation
167,000Elevation
431 metres (1,414 feet)Open location code
589R6H8C+Q7OpenStreetMap ID
node 338515490OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
6319201Wikidata ID
Q984780
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Satellite Map
Discover Mesquita from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Mesquita” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ميسكيتا”
- Basque: “Mesquita”
- Bengali: “মেস্কুইটা”
- Bishnupriya: “মেসকুইটা”
- Catalan: “Mesquita”
- Cebuano: “Mesquita”
- Chechen: “Мескита”
- Chinese: “Mesquita”
- Chinese: “梅斯基塔”
- Danish: “Mesquita”
- Dutch: “Mesquita”
- Esperanto: “Mesquita”
- Finnish: “Mesquita”
- French: “Mesquita”
- Galician: “Mesquita”
- Georgian: “მესკიტა”
- German: “Mesquita”
- Greek: “Μεσκίτα”
- Gujarati: “મેસ્કિટા”
- Hebrew: “מסקואיטה”
- Hindi: “मास्कीटा”
- Hungarian: “Mesquita”
- Indonesian: “Mesquita”
- Irish: “Mesquita”
- Italian: “Mesquita”
- Japanese: “メスキータ”
- Kannada: “ಮೆಸ್ಕ್ವಿಟಾ”
- Kazakh: “Meskïta”
- Kazakh: “Мескита”
- Kazakh: “مەسكىيتا”
- Korean: “메스키타”
- Latvian: “Meskita”
- Lithuanian: “Meskita”
- Malay: “Mesquita”
- Marathi: “मेस्किटि”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mesquita”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mesquita”
- Norwegian: “Mesquita”
- Polish: “Mesquita”
- Portuguese: “Marrecas”
- Portuguese: “Mesquita”
- Portuguese: “Werneck”
- Romanian: “Mesquita”
- Russian: “Мескита”
- Scots: “Mesquita”
- Sinhala: “මෙස්කුඉටා”
- Spanish: “Mesquita”
- Swedish: “Mesquita”
- Tamil: “மஸ்கிடா”
- Tatar: “Мескита”
- Telugu: “మేస్క్విటా”
- Thai: “เมซกีตา”
- Turkish: “Mesquita”
- Ukrainian: “Мескіта”
- Urdu: “میسقویتا”
- Venetian: “Mesquita”
- Vietnamese: “Mesquita”
- Volapük: “Mesquita”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mesquita, Rio de Janeiro”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mesquita”
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