Mosquito Coast
The Mosquito Coast is an area along the eastern coast of present-day Nicaragua and Honduras. It was named after the local Miskito Nation and was long dominated by British interests and known as the Mosquito Kingdom or Moskito Kingdom.- Type: Region
- Description: Occupied territory in Central America
- Also known as: “Mosquitia”
Mosquito Coast
- Categories: territory, historical region, sovereign state, British protectorate, country, and locality
- Location: North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, Nicaragua, Central America, North America
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Latitude
13.4555° or 13° 27′ 20″ northLongitude
-84.8115° or 84° 48′ 41″ westOpen location code
765QF54Q+6COpenStreetMap ID
node 12984611893OpenStreetMap feature
place=regionWikidata ID
Q1165546
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Mosquito Coast” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Mosquitia”
- Basque: “Miskitoen kosta”
- Belarusian: “Маскітавы бераг”
- Catalan: “Mosquitia”
- Cebuano: “Costa de Mosquitos”
- Chinese: “米斯基托斯海岸”
- Chinese: “莫斯基托海岸”
- Croatian: “Obala komaraca”
- Czech: “Moskytské pobřeží”
- Czech: “Pobřeží Moskytů”
- Dutch: “Costa de los Mosquitos”
- Dutch: “Miskitokust”
- Dutch: “Mosquito coast”
- Dutch: “Mosquito Kust”
- Dutch: “Muskietenkust”
- Esperanto: “Miskita Marbordo”
- Finnish: “Moskiittorannikko”
- Finnish: “Mosquitian Kuningaskunta”
- French: “Cote des Mosquitos”
- French: “Côte des Mosquitos”
- Georgian: “მარცვლეულის კუნძულები”
- Georgian: “მოსკიტების სანაპირო”
- German: “Costa de los Mosquitos”
- German: “Miskitoküste”
- German: “Moskito-Küste”
- German: “Moskitoküste”
- Hebrew: “חוף מוסקיטו”
- Hungarian: “Moszkitó-part”
- Indonesian: “Pesisir Miskito”
- Italian: “Costa dei Miskito”
- Italian: “Costa dei Mosquito”
- Japanese: “モスキート海岸”
- Japanese: “モスキティア”
- Kirghiz: “Чиркей жээги”
- Korean: “모스키토 해안”
- Latvian: “Moskitu krasts”
- Lithuanian: “Miskitų karalystė”
- Lithuanian: “Moskitų Krantas”
- Macedonian: “Брег на Комарците”
- Macedonian: “Москито”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mosquitokysten”
- Norwegian: “Mosquitokysten”
- Ossetian: “Москитон былгæрон”
- Polish: “Wybrzeże Moskitów”
- Portuguese: “Costa do Mosquito”
- Portuguese: “Costa dos Misquitos”
- Portuguese: “Costa dos Mosquitos”
- Portuguese: “Mosquitia”
- Portuguese: “Mosquítia”
- Russian: “Берег Москитов”
- Russian: “Москития”
- Russian: “Москитов берег”
- Russian: “Москитовый берег”
- Serbian: “Obala komaraca”
- Serbian: “Обала комараца”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Obala komaraca”
- Slovenian: “Moskitska obala”
- Slovenian: “Mosquito Coast”
- Slovenian: “Obala Moskitov”
- Spanish: “Costa de los Mosquitos”
- Spanish: “Costa de Mosquitos”
- Spanish: “Costa Mosquitia”
- Spanish: “Costa Mosquito”
- Spanish: “La Mosquitia”
- Spanish: “Mosquitia”
- Spanish: “Mosquítia”
- Spanish: “Reino de Mosquitia”
- Spanish: “Reino Mosquito”
- Swedish: “Miskitokusten”
- Swedish: “Moskitkusten”
- Swedish: “Mosquitokusten”
- Turkish: “Miskito Sahili”
- Ukrainian: “Берег Міскіто”
- Ukrainian: “Міскітовий берег”
- Ukrainian: “Москітовий берег”
- Venetian: “Costa dei Miskito”
- Vietnamese: “Mosquito Coast”
- “Kingdom of Mosquitia”
- “Moskitia”
- “Moskito”
- “Mosquitia”
- “Mosquito”
- “Mosquito Coast”
- “Mosquito Shore”
- “Mosquito Territory”
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