Moscow
Since its founding in 1147, Moscow has been at the crossroads of history as the capital of empires and a frequent target for invaders. As the capital of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and, today, the Russian Federation, it has played a central role in the development of the largest country in the world.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Outskirts and Domodedovo International Airport.
Destinations to Discover
Places to explore: Central Moscow and Central-West.
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Places of Interest
Highlights: Bolshoi Theatre and Russian State Library.
Russian State Library
Library
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tagansky District and Presnensky District.
Moscow
- Type: City with 13,300,000 residents
- Description: capital and most populous city of Russia
- Also known as: “Cità di Mosca”, “City of Moscow”, “ciudad de Moscú”, “Mạc Tư Khoa”, “Ma̱si̱kwova”, “Maskwa”, “Mat-xcơ-va”, “Moscow, Russia”, “Moscow, Russian Federation”, “Moscow, Russian SFSR”, “Moscow, Soviet Union”, “Moscow, USSR”, “Moskof”, “Moskovĭ”, “Moskvá”, “Moskva Federal City, Russia”, “Moskva qalası”, “Moskva, Rossiya”, “Moskva, Russia”, “Moskve”, “Moskvë”, “Moskvi”, “Mosky”, “Moßkou”, “orașul Moscova”, “Белокаменная”, “Златоглавая”, “Мәскеу қаласы”, “Москва́”, “Москва (город)”, “Москва (місто)”, “Москва (Росія)”, “Москва (Россия)”, “Москва қаласы”, “Москва ланнҍ”, “Москва, Росія”, “Москва, Россия”, “Москва, РФ”, “Москъвь”, “МСК”, “Нерезиновая”, “Первопрестольная”, “Порт пяти морей”, “Третий Рим”, “ماسکو شہر”, “ماسکو، روس”, “ماسکو، روسی فیڈریشن”, “ماسکو، سوویت یونین”, “ماسکوا”, “مۆسکڤا”, “မွတ်ႉသၵူဝ်ႇ”, “မေႃႇသၵူဝ်ႇ”, and “モスクワ市”
- Neighbors: Kaluga Oblast and Moscow Oblast
- Categories: capital of Russia, federal city of Russia, big city, megacity, largest city, city or town, federal subject of Russia, federal capital, human settlement, city/town in Russia, and locality
- Location: Moscow Oblast, Central Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
55.7505° or 55° 45′ 2″ north
Longitude
37.6175° or 37° 37′ 3″ east
Population
13,300,000
Elevation
155 metres (509 feet)
Established
1147
IATA airport code
MOW
UN/LOCODE
RU MOW
Open location code
9G7VQJ28+6X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Moscow” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Москва”
- Achinese: “Moskow”
- Achinese: “Moskôw”
- Adyghe: “Москва”
- Afrikaans: “Moskou”
- Albanian: “Moska”
- Amharic: “ሞስኮ”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Μόσχα”
- Angika: “मॉस्को”
- Arabic: “موسكو”
- Aragonese: “Moscú”
- Armenian: “Մոսկվա”
- Arpitan: “Moscou”
- Assamese: “মস্কো”
- Asturian: “Moscú”
- Avaric: “Москва”
- Awadhi: “मस्को”
- Aymara: “Mosku”
- Azerbaijani: “Moskva” (historical)
- Balinese: “Moskow”
- Bambara: “Moskva”
- Bashkir: “Мәскәү”
- Basque: “Mosku”
- Bavarian: “Moskau”
- Belarusian: “Масква”
- Bengali: “মস্কো”
- Betawi: “Mosko”
- Bhojpuri: “मास्को”
- Bislama: “Moskow”
- Bosnian: “Moskva”
- Breton: “Moskov”
- Bulgarian: “Москва”
- Burmese: “မော်စကိုမြို့”
- Catalan: “Moscou”
- Cebuano: “Moscow”
- Central Bikol: “Mosku”
- Central Kanuri: “Moscow”
- Central Kurdish: “مۆسکۆ”
- Chamorro: “Moscow”
- Chavacano: “Moscow”
- Chechen: “Москох”
- Chinese: “莫斯科”
- Church Slavic: “Москъва”
- Church Slavic: “Москꙑ”
- Chuvash: “Мускав”
- Cornish: “Moskva”
- Corsican: “Mosca”
- Corsican: “Moscù”
- Crimean Tatar: “Moskova”
- Crimean Tatar: “Moskva”
- Croatian: “Moskva”
- Czech: “Moskva”
- Dagbani: “Moscow”
- Danish: “Moskva”
- Dhivehi: “މޮސްކޯ”
- Dimli (individual language): “Moskowa”
- Dinka: “Moccow”
- Dotyali: “मस्को”
- Dutch: “Moskou”
- Dzongkha: “མོསི་ཀོ”
- Eastern Mari: “Моско”
- Egyptian Arabic: “موسكو”
- Emilian: “Måssca”
- Erzya: “Москов ош”
- Esperanto: “Moskvo”
- Estonian: “Moskva”
- Extremaduran: “Moscú”
- Fanti: “Moscow”
- Faroese: “Moskva”
- Fiji Hindi: “Moscow”
- Fijian: “Mosiko”
- Finnish: “Moskova”
- French: “Moscou”
- Friulian: “Mosche”
- Fulah: “Moscow”
- Gagauz: “Moskva”
- Galician: “Moscova”
- Gan Chinese: “莫斯科”
- Ganda: “Moosko”
- Georgian: “მოსკოვი”
- German: “Moskau”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Moscow”
- Gilaki: “مؤسکؤ”
- Gothic: “𐌼𐍉𐍃𐌺𐍅𐌰/Moskwa”
- Gothic: “𐌼𐍉𐍃𐌺𐍅𐌰”
- Greek: “Μόσχα”
- Guarani: “Mosuku”
- Guianese Creole French: “Moskou”
- Gujarati: “મોસ્કો”
- Gun: “Moscow”
- Haitian: “Moskou”
- Hakka Chinese: “Mo̍k-sṳ̂-khô”
- Hakka Chinese: “Moskva”
- Hausa: “Moscow”
- Hawaiian: “Mokekao”
- Hebrew: “מוסקבה”
- Hebrew: “מוסקווה”
- Hindi: “मास्को”
- Hungarian: “Moszkva”
- Iban: “Moscow”
- Icelandic: “Moskva”
- Ido: “Moskva”
- Iloko: “Moscow”
- Inari Sami: “Moskova”
- Indonesian: “Moskow”
- Indonesian: “Moskwa”
- Ingush: “Москва”
- Ingush: “Москоа”
- Interlingua: “Moscova”
- Interlingue: “Moscva”
- Interlingue: “Moskwa”
- Inuktitut: “ᒨᔅᑯ”
- Irish: “Moscó”
- Italian: “Mosca”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Masko”
- Japanese: “モスクワ”
- Javanese: “Moskou”
- Javanese: “Moskwa”
- Jèrriais: “Moscou”
- Kabardian: “Мэзкуу”
- Kabiyè: “Mɔsɩkʊʊ”
- Kabuverdianu: “Muskovu”
- Kabyle: “Mosku”
- Kabyle: “Musku”
- Kalaallisut: “Moskva”
- Kalmyk: “Москва балһсн”
- Kannada: “ಮಾಸ್ಕೋ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Moskva”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Маскау”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Москва”
- Kashmiri: “ماسکو”
- Kashubian: “Mòskwa”
- Kazakh: “Мәскеу”
- Khmer: “ម៉ូស្គូ”
- Kikuyu: “Moscow”
- Kildin Sami: “Москва”
- Kirghiz: “Маскөө”
- Kirghiz: “Москва”
- Kölsch: “Moskau”
- Komering: “Moskow”
- Komi-Permyak: “Мӧсква”
- Komi: “Мӧскуа”
- Kongo: “Moskva”
- Korean: “모스크바”
- Kotava: “Moskva”
- Kurdish: “Mosko”
- Kurdish: “Moskow”
- Ladin: “Moscau”
- Ladino: “Mosku”
- Lak: “Москав”
- Lao: “ມອສໂກ”
- Lao: “ມົດສະກູ”
- Latgalian: “Moskova”
- Latin: “Moscua”
- Latvian: “Maskava”
- Lezghian: “Москва”
- Ligurian: “Mosca”
- Limburgan: “Moskou”
- Lingala: “Moskú”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Moscva”
- Literary Chinese: “莫斯科”
- Lithuanian: “Maskva”
- Livvi: “Moskovu”
- Lojban: “moskovas”
- Lojban: “Moskuas”
- Lombard: “Musca”
- Low German: “Moskau”
- Low German: “Moskou”
- Lower Sorbian: “Moskwa”
- Luxembourgish: “Moskau”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Moscova”
- Macedonian: “Москва”
- Magahi: “मास्को”
- Maithili: “मस्को”
- Malagasy: “Môsikao”
- Malagasy: “Moskva”
- Malay: “Moscow”
- Malay: “موسکو”
- Malayalam: “മോസ്കോ”
- Maltese: “Moska”
- Manx: “Moscow”
- Maori: “Mohikau”
- Marathi: “मॉस्को”
- Mazanderani: “موسکو”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Moskva”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bo̍k-su-kho”
- Minangkabau: “Moskow”
- Mingrelian: “მოსკოვი”
- Mirandese: “Moscobo”
- Moksha: “Моску”
- Mongolian: “Москва”
- Moroccan Arabic: “موسكو”
- Mossi: “Moscow”
- Nauru: “Moscow”
- Navajo: “Halzhin Deezlíní”
- Neapolitan: “Mosca”
- Neapolitan: “Mosche”
- Nepali: “मस्को”
- Newari: “मस्को”
- Northern Frisian: “Moskau”
- Northern Sami: “Moskva”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Moskva”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Moskva”
- Norwegian: “Moskva”
- Novial: “Moskva”
- Nyanja: “Moscow”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Moscòu”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܘܣܩܒܐ”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Moscow”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Moscoƿ”
- Oriya: “ମସ୍କୋ”
- Oromo: “Mooskoo”
- Ossetian: “Мæскуы”
- Pampanga: “Mosku”
- Panjabi: “ਮਾਸਕੋ”
- Papiamento: “Mosku”
- Pedi: “Moscow”
- Pennsylvania German: “Moscow”
- Persian: “مسکو”
- Picard: “Moscou”
- Piemontese: “Mosca”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Moscow”
- Polish: “Moskwa”
- Pontic: “Μόσχα”
- Portuguese: “Moscou”
- Portuguese: “Moscovo”
- Pushto: “مسکو”
- Quechua: “Moskwa”
- Quechua: “Muskuw”
- Romanian: “Moscova”
- Romanian: “Москова”
- Romansh: “Moscau”
- Rundi: “Moscou”
- Russia Buriat: “Москва”
- Russian: “Москва”
- Rusyn: “Москва”
- Samoan: “Moscow”
- Samogitian: “Maskva”
- Sango: “Moscow”
- Sanskrit: “मास्कोनगरम्”
- Santali: “ᱢᱚᱥᱠᱚ”
- Sardinian: “Mosca”
- Saterfriesisch: “Moskau”
- Scots: “Moscow”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Moscobha”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Mosgo”
- Serbian: “Moskva”
- Serbian: “Москва”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Moskva”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းမွတ်ႉသၵူဝ်ႇ”
- Shona: “Moscow”
- Sicilian: “Mosca”
- Sicilian: “Musca”
- Silesian: “Moskwa”
- Sindhi: “ماسڪو”
- Sinhala: “මොස්කව්”
- Slovak: “Moskva”
- Slovenian: “Moskva”
- Somali: “Moskow”
- South Azerbaijani: “موسکو”
- Southern Altai: “Москва”
- Southern Sotho: “Moscow”
- Spanish: “Moscú”
- Sundanese: “Moskow”
- Sundanese: “Moskwa”
- Swahili: “Moscow”
- Swati: “Moscow”
- Swedish: “Moskva”
- Swiss German: “Moskau”
- Tachelhit: “Muṣku”
- Tagalog: “Mosku”
- Tahitian: “Moscou”
- Tajik: “Маскав”
- Talysh: “Məskova”
- Tamil: “மாஸ்கோ”
- Tatar: “Mäskäw”
- Tatar: “Мәскәү”
- Telugu: “మాస్కో”
- Tetum: “Moskovu”
- Thai: “มอสโก”
- Tibetan: “མོ་སི་ཁོ།”
- Tigrinya: “ሞስኮ”
- Tok Pisin: “Mosko”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Mosekou”
- Tumbuka: “Moscow”
- Turkish: “Moskova”
- Turkmen: “Moskwa”
- Tuvinian: “Москва”
- Twi: “Moskow”
- Twi: “Moskva”
- Tyap: “Ma̱si̱kwo”
- Udmurt: “Муско”
- Uighur: “Moskwa”
- Uighur: “موسكۋا”
- Ukrainian: “Москва”
- Upper Sorbian: “Moskwa”
- Urdu: “ماسکو”
- Uzbek: “Moskva”
- Venetian: “Mosca”
- Veps: “Moskv”
- Vietnamese: “Mát-xcơ-va”
- Vietnamese: “Matxcơva”
- Vietnamese: “Moskva”
- Vlaams: “Moskou”
- Vlax Romani: “Moscova”
- Volapük: “Moskva”
- Võro: “Moskva”
- Walloon: “Moscou”
- Waray (Philippines): “Moscow”
- Welsh: “Moscfa”
- Western Armenian: “Մոսկուա”
- Western Frisian: “Moskou”
- Western Mari: “Москва”
- Western Panjabi: “ماسکو”
- Wolof: “Mosku”
- Wu Chinese: “莫斯科”
- Xhosa: “Moscou”
- Yakut: “Москва”
- Yakut: “Москуба”
- Yiddish: “מאסקווע”
- Yiddish: “מאָסקװע”
- Yoruba: “Mọsko”
- Yoruba: “Mọ́skò”
- Yue Chinese: “莫斯科”
- Zeeuws: “Moskou”
- Zhuang: “Moscow”
- Zulu: “IMoskwa”
- “ma tomo Mawa”
- “Moscohuia”
- “Moskva”
- “Москва”
- “मास्को”
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