Mogadishu
Mogadishu is the capital and most populous city in Somalia. It is home to the Somali National University and many other historical places. Mogadishu has about 1,700,000 residents.
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Notable Places in the Area
Mogadishu Cathedral
Church
Mogadishu Cathedral is a ruined Roman Catholic cathedral located in Mogadishu, Somalia.
The National Theatre
Theater
The National Theatre of Somalia is located in central Mogadishu, Somalia.
Mosque of Islamic Solidarity
Mosque
The Mosque of Islamic Solidarity is a mosque located in Mogadishu, Somalia. Photo: Welimo28, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Eng. Yariisow Stadium
Stadium
The Eng. Yariisow Stadium, formerly known as Garoonka Banaadir Stadium, or simply Benadir Stadium in the Somali language, is a multi-use stadium in Mogadishu, Banaadir, Somalia, that is currently used mostly for football matches. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
Mogadishu
- Type: City
- Description: capital of Somalia
- Categories: port settlement, capital and city with millions of inhabitants
- Location: Southern Somalia, Somalia, East Africa, Africa
Latitude 2.0349° or 2° 2' 5.8" north | Longitude 45.3419° or 45° 20' 30.9" east |
Population 1,700,000 | IATA airport code MGQ |
United Nations Location Code SO MGQ | Elevation 12 metres (39 feet) |
OpenStreetMap ID node 34684808 | GeoNames ID 53654 |
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Mugadiccu
- Achinese: Mogadishu
- Afrikaans: Mogadisjoe
- Albanian: Mogadishu
- Amharic: ሞቃዲሾ
- Arabic: Mogadishu
- Arabic: مقديشو
- Arabic: مقديشيو
- Aragonese: Mogadixo
- Armenian: Մոգադիշո
- Asturian: Mogadixu
- Avaric: Muqdisho
- Azerbaijani: Moqadişo
- Basque: Muqdisho
- Belarusian: Магадыша
- Belarusian: Магадышу
- Bengali: মোগাদিশু
- Bengali: মোগাদিসু
- Bosnian: Mogadiš
- Breton: Muqdisho
- Bulgarian: Могадишу
- Catalan: Mogadiscio
- Catalan: Mogadixo
- Cebuano: Mogadishu
- Central Bikol: Mogadishu
- Central Kurdish: مۆگادیشو
- Central Kurdish: مۆگادیشۆ
- Chechen: Могадишо
- Chinese: Mogadishu
- Chinese: 哈馬
- Chinese: 摩加迪休
- Chinese: 摩加迪沙
- Chinese: 木骨都束
- Croatian: Mogadishu
- Czech: Mogadišo
- Czech: Mogadišu
- Danish: Mogadishu
- Dimli (individual language): Mogadişu
- Dutch: Mogadishu
- Egyptian Arabic: مقديشو
- English: Hamar
- English: Maqadīshū
- English: The Seat of the Shah
- English: Xamar
- Esperanto: Mogadisxo
- Esperanto: Mogadiŝo
- Estonian: Muqdisho
- Faroese: Mogadishu
- Fiji Hindi: Mogadishu
- Finnish: Mogadishu
- French: Mogadiscio
- Galician: Mogadixo
- Georgian: მოგადიშო
- German: Mogadischu
- Greek: Μογκαντίσου
- Greek: Μουκντίσο
- Guarani: Mogandísio
- Gujarati: મોગદિશુ
- Haitian: Moukdicho
- Hakka Chinese: Mogadishu
- Hausa: Mogadishu
- Hebrew: מוגדישו
- Hindi: मोगादिशु
- Hindi: मोगादीशू
- Hungarian: Mogadishu
- Icelandic: Mógadisjú
- Ido: Mogadishu
- Inari Sami: Mogadishu
- Indonesian: Mogadishu
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Mogadishu
- Interlingue: Mogadishu
- Irish: Mogaidisiú
- Italian: Mogadiscio
- Japanese: モガディシオ
- Japanese: モガディシュ
- Javanese: Mogadishu
- Kabiyè: Mogaadisiyo
- Kabyle: Mugadiccu
- Kannada: ಮೊಗಡಿಶು
- Kannada: ಮೊಗದಿಶು
- Kazakh: Могадишо
- Kazakh: Могадишо қаласы
- Kikuyu: Mogadishu
- Kinyarwanda: Mogadishu
- Kirghiz: Могадишо
- Kongo: Mogadishu
- Korean: 모가디슈
- Kotava: Muqdisho
- Kurdish: Mogadishu
- Kurdish: Mogadîşu
- Latin: Mogadiscium
- Latvian: Mogadīšo
- Ligurian: Mogadiscio
- Literary Chinese: 木骨都束
- Lithuanian: Mogadišas
- Livvi: Mogadišo
- Lombard: Mugadiss
- Low German: Mogadischu
- Luxembourgish: Mogadischu
- Macedonian: Могадишу
- Malagasy: Mogadishu
- Malay: Mogadishu
- Malayalam: മൊഗാദിഷു
- Marathi: मोगादिशू
- Min Dong Chinese: Mogadishu
- Min Nan Chinese: Mogadishu
- Mingrelian: მოგადიშო
- Mongolian: Могадишу
- Moroccan Arabic: موڭاديشو
- Northern Frisian: Mogadischu
- Norwegian: Mogadishu
- Norwegian Bokmål: Mogadishu
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Mogadishu
- Novial: Mogadishu
- Occitan (post 1500): Mogadisho
- Oriya: ମୋଗାଡ଼ିସୁ
- Ossetian: Могадишо
- Panjabi: ਮਕਦੀਸ਼ੂ
- Papiamento: Mogadishu
- Persian: موگادیشو
- Piemontese: Mogadiss
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Mogadisho
- Polish: Mogadiszu
- Portuguese: Mogadíscio
- Pushto: موګادیشو
- Pushto: مکاديشو
- Pushto: مګاديشو
- Pushto: مګ ديشو
- Quechua: Mugadishu
- Romanian: Mogadishu
- Russian: Могадишо
- Sardinian: Mogadìsciu
- Scots: Mogadishu
- Scottish Gaelic: Mogadishu
- Serbian: Могадишу
- Serbo-Croatian: Mogadishu
- Shona: Mogadishu
- Silesian: Mogadiszu
- Sinhala: මොගඩිෂු
- Sinhala: මොගාඩිශු
- Slovak: Mogadiisho
- Slovak: Mogadišo
- Slovenian: Mogadiš
- Somali: Muqdisho
- South Azerbaijani: موقادیشو
- Spanish: Mogadiscio
- Swahili: Mogadishu
- Swedish: Mogadishu
- Tagalog: Mogadishu
- Tajik: Могадишо
- Tamil: முக்தீசூ
- Tamil: மொகடிசு
- Tamil: மொகாடிஷு
- Telugu: మోగాదీశూ
- Thai: โมกาดิชู
- Tibetan: མོ་ག་དི་ཤུ།
- Turkish: Mogadişu
- Turkmen: Mogadişu
- Udmurt: Могадишо
- Ukrainian: Могадішо
- Ukrainian: Моґадішо
- Urdu: موغادیشو
- Uzbek: Mogadisho
- Venetian: Mogadiscio
- Veps: Mogadišo
- Vietnamese: 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: 摩加迪沙
- Zulu: Mogadishu
- Magadiscio
- Maqdishu
- Mogadish
- Muqdishow
- Muqdisho مقديشو
- Muqdishu
Other Places Named Mogadishu
- BanaadirState, Somalia
In the Area
Localities
- Xamar WeyneSuburb
- ShingaaniSuburb
- Old HarbourLocality
- BondhereSuburb
- Hamar JajabSuburb
- ShibisSuburb
Landmarks
- Umberto di Savoia triumphal archMonument
- Second Lido BeachBeach
- Marwaas MosqueMosque
- national zooTourist attraction
- maxkamada sareCourthouse
- Daljirka DahsoonMonument
Popular Destinations in Somalia
Escape to a Random Place
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