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Fun fact 3 about Mogadishu

Lido beach from the sea in Mogadishu
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The Mogadishu Sultanate maintained a vast trading network and dominated the regional gold trade.

Mogadishu
Somalia
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Mogadishu

Somalia

Country
Somalia
Population
2.6M
Coordinates
2.05, 45.32
116th most populous city in the world

Mogadishu, 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 4,126,815.

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