Mogadishu

Mogadishu is the capital and most populous city in . Once a beautiful city that merged Somali and Italian cultural and architectural traditions, much of it now lies in ruins after decades of civil war.
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  • Type: City with 2,610,000 residents
  • Description: capital and the largest city of Somalia
  • Also known as: “Hamar”, “Hamara”, “Magadiscio”, “Maqadīshū”, “Maqdishu”, “Mogadiisho”, “Mogadish”, “Mogadishu, Somalia”, “Muqdisho مقديشو”, “Muqdishow”, “Muqdishu”, “The Seat of the Shah”, “Xamar”, “مکاديشو”, “مګ ديشو”, “مګاديشو”, “मोगादिशु”, “মোগাদিসু”, “மொகாடிஷு”, “මොගාඩිශු”, “モガディシオ”, and “哈馬”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mogadishu Cathedral and Mosque of Islamic Solidarity.

Church
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is a ruined Catholic cathedral located in Mogadishu, . Between 1928 and 1991, it served as the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mogadiscio.

Mosque
Photo: Welimo28, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a located in Mogadishu, , , overlooking the Somali Sea.

Stadium
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The , formerly known as Garoonka Banaadir Stadium, or simply Benadir Stadium in the Somali language, is a multi-use 20,000-capacity in Mogadishu, , , that is currently used mostly for football matches.

Mogadishu

Latitude
2.0349° or 2° 2′ 6″ north
Longitude
45.3419° or 45° 20′ 31″ east
Population
2,610,000
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
IATA airport code
MGQ
United Nations Location Code
SO MGQ
Open location code
6HJ728MR+XQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 34684808
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
53654
Wiki­data ID
Q2449
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Mogadishu” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Mogadishu”
  • Afrikaans: “Mogadisjoe”
  • Albanian: “Mogadishu”
  • Amharic: “ሞቃዲሾ”
  • Arabic: “مقديشو”
  • Arabic: “مقديشيو”
  • Aragonese: “Mogadixo”
  • Armenian: “Մոգադիշո”
  • Asturian: “Mogadixu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Moqadişo”
  • Balinese: “Mogadishu”
  • Basque: “Muqdisho”
  • Belarusian: “Магадыша”
  • Belarusian: “Магадышу”
  • Bengali: “মোগাদিশু”
  • Bosnian: “Mogadiš”
  • Breton: “Muqdisho”
  • Bulgarian: “Могадишу”
  • Catalan: “Mogadiscio”
  • Catalan: “Mogadixo”
  • Cebuano: “Mogadishu”
  • Central Bikol: “Mogadishu”
  • Central Kurdish: “مۆگادیشو”
  • Central Kurdish: “مۆگادیشۆ”
  • Chechen: “Могадишо”
  • Chinese: “摩加迪休”
  • Chinese: “摩加迪沙”
  • Croatian: “Mogadiš”
  • Croatian: “Mogadishu”
  • Czech: “Mogadišo”
  • Czech: “Mogadišu”
  • Dagbani: “Mogadishu”
  • Danish: “Mogadishu”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Mogadişu”
  • Dutch: “Mogadishu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مقديشو”
  • Esperanto: “Mogadiŝo”
  • Esperanto: “Mogadisxo”
  • Estonian: “Muqdisho”
  • Ewe: “Mogadishu”
  • Extremaduran: “Mogadisciu”
  • Fanti: “Mogadishu”
  • Farefare: “Mogadishu”
  • Faroese: “Mogadishu”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Mogadishu”
  • Finnish: “Mogadishu”
  • French: “Mogadiscio”
  • Fulah: “Mogadishu”
  • Ga: “Mogadishu”
  • Galician: “Mogadixo”
  • Georgian: “მოგადიშო”
  • German: “Mogadischu”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Mogadishu”
  • Greek: “Μογκαντίσου”
  • Greek: “Μουκντίσο”
  • Guarani: “Mogandísio”
  • Gujarati: “મોગદિશુ”
  • Haitian: “Moukdicho”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Mogadishu”
  • Hausa: “Mogadishu”
  • Hawaiian: “Mogadishu”
  • Hebrew: “מוגדישו”
  • Hindi: “मोगादीशू”
  • Hungarian: “Mogadishu”
  • Icelandic: “Mógadisjú”
  • Ido: “Mogadishu”
  • Igbo: “Mogadishu”
  • Inari Sami: “Mogadishu”
  • Indonesian: “Mogadishu”
  • Interlingua: “Mogadiscio”
  • Interlingua: “Mogadishu”
  • Interlingue: “Mogadishu”
  • Irish: “Mogaidisiú”
  • Italian: “Mogadiscio”
  • Japanese: “モガディシュ”
  • Javanese: “Mogadishu”
  • Kabiyè: “Mogaadisiyo”
  • Kabyle: “Mugadiccu”
  • Kannada: “ಮೊಗಡಿಶು”
  • Kannada: “ಮೊಗದಿಶು”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Mogadisho”
  • Kashmiri: “موغادیشوٗ”
  • Kazakh: “Могадишо қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Могадишо”
  • Kikuyu: “Mogadishu”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Mogadishu”
  • Kirghiz: “Могадишо”
  • Komering: “Mogadishu”
  • Kongo: “Mogadishu”
  • Korean: “모가디슈”
  • Kotava: “Muqdisho”
  • Kurdish: “Mogadîşu”
  • Kurdish: “Mogadîşû”
  • Kusaal: “Mogadishu”
  • Latin: “Mogadiscium”
  • Latvian: “Mogadīšo”
  • Ligurian: “Mogadiscio”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Mogadishu”
  • Literary Chinese: “木骨都束”
  • Lithuanian: “Mogadišas”
  • Livvi: “Mogadišo”
  • Lombard: “Mugadiss”
  • Low German: “Mogadischu”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mogadischu”
  • Macedonian: “Могадишу”
  • Malagasy: “Mogadiscio”
  • Malagasy: “Mogadishu”
  • Malay: “Mogadishu”
  • Malayalam: “മൊഗാദിഷു”
  • Maltese: “Mogadishu”
  • Marathi: “मोगादिशू”
  • Mazanderani: “موگادیشو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Mogadishu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mogadishu”
  • Minangkabau: “Mogadishu”
  • Mingrelian: “მოგადიშო”
  • Moksha: “Могадишу”
  • Mongolian: “Могадишо”
  • Mongolian: “Могадишу”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “موڭاديشو”
  • Mossi: “Mogadishu”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Mogadishu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mogadischu”
  • Northern Sami: “Mogadishu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mogadishu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mogadishu”
  • Norwegian: “Mogadishu”
  • Novial: “Mogadishu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mogadisho”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mogadiscū”
  • Oriya: “ମୋଗାଡ଼ିସୁ”
  • Ossetian: “Могадишо”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਕਦੀਸ਼ੂ”
  • Papiamento: “Mogadishu”
  • Persian: “موگادیشو”
  • Piemontese: “Mogadiss”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Mogadisho”
  • Polish: “Mogadiszu”
  • Portuguese: “Mogadíscio”
  • Portuguese: “Mogadixo”
  • Pushto: “موګادیشو”
  • Quechua: “Mugadishu”
  • Romanian: “Mogadishu”
  • Russian: “Могадишо”
  • Sardinian: “Mogadìsciu”
  • Scots: “Mogadishu”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Mogadishu”
  • Serbian: “Могадиш”
  • Serbian: “Могадишу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mogadishu”
  • Shona: “Mogadishu”
  • Silesian: “Mogadiszu”
  • Sindhi: “موغاديشو”
  • Sinhala: “මොගඩිෂු”
  • Skolt Sami: “Mogadishu”
  • Slovak: “Mogadišo”
  • Slovenian: “Mogadiš”
  • Somali: “Muqdisho”
  • South Azerbaijani: “موقادیشو”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Mogadishu”
  • Spanish: “Mogadiscio”
  • Swahili: “Mogadishu”
  • Swedish: “Mogadishu”
  • Tagalog: “Mogadishu”
  • Tajik: “Могадишо”
  • Tamil: “முக்தீசூ”
  • Tamil: “மொகடிசு”
  • Telugu: “మోగాదీశూ”
  • Thai: “โมกาดิชู”
  • Tibetan: “མོ་ག་དི་ཤུ།”
  • Tumbuka: “Mogadishu”
  • Turkish: “Mogadişu”
  • Turkmen: “Mogadişu”
  • Twi: “Mogadishu”
  • Udmurt: “Могадишо”
  • Ukrainian: “Могадішо”
  • Ukrainian: “Моґадішо”
  • Urdu: “مقديشو”
  • Urdu: “موغادیشو”
  • Uzbek: “Mogadisho”
  • Venetian: “Mogadiscio”
  • Veps: “Mogadišo”
  • Vietnamese: “Mogadishu”
  • Volapük: “Muqdisho”
  • Wali (Ghana): “Mogadishu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mogadishu”
  • Welsh: “Mogadishu”
  • Western Frisian: “Mogadisjû”
  • Western Panjabi: “موگادیشو”
  • Wolof: “Mogadisu”
  • Wu Chinese: “摩加迪沙”
  • Yiddish: “מאגאדישו”
  • Yoruba: “Mogadishu”
  • Yue Chinese: “摩加迪殊”
  • Yue Chinese: “摩加迪沙”
  • Zulu: “i-Mogadishu”
  • Zulu: “Mogadishu”
  • “Mogadishu”
  • “Mogadixu”

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