1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Somalia
Compare this sourced profile of Mogadishu, Somalia before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Mogadishu—2,587,183, Africa/Mogadishu, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital and the largest city of Somalia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Mogadishu is GeoNames ID 53654. Its recorded administrative path is Banaadir → Somalia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Mogadishu occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2025-10-18; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Mogadishu ranks 150 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Somalia entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 29. Its 2,587,183 population value is 1.62 times the 1,592,513 median for the country cohort and 2.87 times the 902,588 regional median. Mogadishu is rank 1 among the 2 selected Somalia entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Mogadishu's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Mogadishu's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jijiga at 860.424 km with 483,000 recorded people; Borama at 910.208 km with 597,842 recorded people; Mombasa at 925.884 km with 1,208,333 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 65.46 km. Compared with Jijiga, Mogadishu's recorded population is 5.36 times as large. Against Mogadishu, Jijiga follows Somali → Ethiopia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Ethiopia cohort rather than Somalia, uses Africa/Addis_Ababa instead of Africa/Mogadishu, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Mogadishu's. Against Mogadishu, Borama follows Awdal → Somalia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Somalia cohort, uses the shared Africa/Mogadishu identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Mogadishu's. Against Mogadishu, Mombasa follows Mombasa County → Kenya in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Kenya cohort rather than Somalia, uses Africa/Nairobi instead of Africa/Mogadishu, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Mogadishu's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,200 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Mogadishu's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 53654, the coordinate pair 2.0371 / 45.3438, country rank 1 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 333795 at 860.424 km bind Mogadishu to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Mogadishu's reference point is 2.0371° north and 45.3438° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Mogadishu is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Mogadishu's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Mogadishu's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Mogadishu's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Mogadishu, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Mogadishu's closest other entries in this atlas are Jijiga (860.424 km), Borama (910.208 km), Mombasa (925.884 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-10-18; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.