Mogadishu

Somalia

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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Country: Somalia
Population: 1,100,000
Latitude: 2.07° N
Longitude: 45.36° E

Which way is Mogadishu from…

From Paris, Mogadishu lies at 128° to the south-east, 6,613 km as the crow flies.

Paris	128° south-east	6,613 km
London	126° south-east	6,931 km
New York	68° east	12,272 km
Madrid	118° south-east	6,510 km
Rome	135° south-east	5,509 km
Montreal	67° north-east	12,036 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	336° north-west	2,778 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

Mogadishu sits on the latitude of Singapore, on the Indian Ocean coast. From London, aim south-east, at 126°, 6,931 km away, rather than the 142° a flat map would suggest. From Montreal, the map would be off by 45°: it says 112°, east, while the compass shows 67°, north-east, because the shortest route crosses the Mediterranean, the Sahara and Ethiopia.