Mogadishu
Mogadishu is the capital and most populous city in Somalia. It is home to the Somali National University and many other historical places. Cathedral ruins in Mogadishu…Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Notable Places in the Area
Mogadishu Cathedral
Church
Mogadishu Cathedral is a ruined Roman Catholic cathedral located in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Mosque of Islamic Solidarity
Mosque
Photo: Welimo28, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Mosque of Islamic Solidarity is a mosque located in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Mogadishu
- Type: City with 1,700,000 residents
- Description: capital of Somalia
- Categories: port settlement, capital city, million city and locality
- Location: Banaadir, Southern Somalia, Somalia, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
2.0349° or 2° 2' 6" northLongitude
45.3419° or 45° 20' 31" eastPopulation
1,700,000Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)IATA airport code
MGQUnited Nations Location Code
SO MGQOpen Location Code
6HJ728MR+XQOpenStreetMap ID
node 34684808OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
53654Wikidata ID
Q2449Mogadishu Satellite Map
© OpenStreetMap, Mapbox and Maxar
Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Mugadiccu
- Achinese: Mogadishu
- Afar: Mogadisho
- Afrikaans: Mogadisjoe
- Albanian: Mogadishu
- Amharic: ሞቃዲሾ
- Arabic: Mogadishu
- Arabic: مقديشو
- Arabic: مقديشيو
- Aragonese: Mogadixo
- Armenian: Մոգադիշո
- Asturian: Mogadixu
- Avaric: Muqdisho
- Azerbaijani: Moqadişo
- Balinese: Mogadishu
- 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
- Hawaiian: Mogadishu
- Hebrew: מוגדישו
- Hindi: मोगादिशु
- Hindi: मोगादीशू
- Hungarian: Mogadishu
- Icelandic: Mógadisjú
- Ido: Mogadishu
- Inari Sami: Mogadishu
- Indonesian: Mogadishu
- Interlingua: 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
- Kara-Kalpak: Mogadisho
- 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
- Lingua Franca Nova: Mogadishu
- 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
- Mazanderani: موگادیشو
- Min Dong Chinese: Mogadishu
- Min Nan Chinese: Mogadishu
- Mingrelian: მოგადიშო
- Moksha: Могадишу
- Mongolian: Могадишу
- Moroccan Arabic: موڭاديشو
- Northern Frisian: Mogadischu
- Northern Sami: Mogadishu
- 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: Могадиш
- Serbian: Могадишу
- Serbo-Croatian: Mogadishu
- Shona: Mogadishu
- Silesian: Mogadiszu
- Sinhala: මොගඩිෂු
- Sinhala: මොගාඩිශු
- Skolt Sami: Mogadishu
- 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།
- Tumbuka: Mogadishu
- Turkish: Mogadişu
- Turkmen: Mogadişu
- Udmurt: Могадишо
- Ukrainian: Могадішо
- Ukrainian: Моґадішо
- Urdu: مقديشو
- 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: 摩加迪殊
- Yue Chinese: 摩加迪沙
- Zulu: Mogadishu
- Magadiscio
- Maqdishu
- Mogadish
- Muqdishow
- Muqdishu
Other Places Named Mogadishu
In the Area
Mogadishu is situated close to the suburb Shingaani and the locality Old Harbour.
- Xamar WeyneSuburb
- Hamar JajabSuburb
- ShibisSuburb
- AbdiazizSuburb
- Raas SifSuburb
- WardhiigleySuburb
Popular Destinations in Somalia
Escape to a Random Place
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Mogadishu. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.