Mogadishu
Mogadishu (, also US: ; Somali: Muqdisho, Wadaad: مُقْدِشو \[mʉq'dɪ:ʃɔ\] or Xamar, Wadaad: حَمَرْ \[ħɑmɑr\]; Arabic: مقديشو, Italian: Mogadiscio), locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and most populous city of Somalia The city has served as an important port connecting traders across the Indian Ocean for millennia and has an estimated urban population of 2,610,483 Mogadishu is located in the coastal Banaadir region on the Indian Ocean, which, unlike other Somali regions, is considered a municipality rather than a maamul goboleed (federal state)
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