Cities of the World Educational Posters & Prints “Mo...-”
for social studies classrooms, home schoolers, theme decor for office and studio.

Mogadishu is the capital and largest city in Somalia. Mogadishu is located on the Indian Ocean and has been an important port for centuries.

Famous people associated with Mogadishu include the super model Iman.

Mohenjo-daro, an archeological site in Pakistan, was one of the largest settlements of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, and one of the world's earliest major urban settlements, existing at the same time as the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Crete.

Mohenjo-daro was built around 2600 BC and abandoned around 1800 BC, and it, along with Harappa, were the two greatest cities of the Indus River Valley Civilization.

Mombasa, the second-largest city in Kenya, is situated on Mombasa Island in the Indian Ocean, separated from mainland Africa by two creeks. It is a major port and serves as the center of Kenya's coastal tourism industry.

Mombasa's Kilindini Harbor is a ria, a “coastal inlet formed by the partial submerged or drowned river valley that remains open to the sea”.

FYI ~ Vasco da Gama was the first known European to visit Mombasa, in 1498. The Portugeuse built Fort Jesus in 1593.

Monoco, a principality and sovereign city state on the French Riviera, is the second smallest country (by size) in the world (Vatican City is smaller), the world's second smallest monarchy, and is the second most densely populated country in the world.

The House of Grimaldi has ruled Monaco, with brief interruptions, since 1297. Prince Albert II is currently the head of state; his parents were Prince Rainer III and the American actress Grace Kelly.

The largest city and capital of Uruguay, Montevideo, is the southernmost capital in the Americas (and third in the world after Wellington, NZ and Noumea, New Caledonia).

Montevideo is located on the north shore of the Río de la Plata, the arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the south coast of Uruguay from the north coast of Argentina.

Monrovia, located on the Atlantic Coast of West Africa at Cape Mesurado, is the capital city of Liberia.

Monrovia was founded in 1822 for emancipated American survivors of slavery, and named in honor of U.S. President James Monroe who was a supporter of reverse colonization.

FYI - The name Liberia means “the country of the free”, and in 1792 Freetown, Sierra Leone, was founded for the same purpose.

Montreal, located on the St. Lawrence River, is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second largest French speaking city in the world, only after Paris. The name Montreal means Mount Royal for the central hill.

The site of Montreal has archeological evidence of Algonquin, Huron, and Iroquois tribal settlement for 4,000 years before French explorer Jacques Cartier became the first European to reach the area in 1535.

Moscow is the capital and the most populous city in Russia as well the most populous city on the continent of Europe and the seventh largest city proper in the world.

The first mention of Moscow dates to 1147 and the first wall was built c. 1156. The city has been sacked and burned by the Mongols/Tartars, suffered plague epidemics, been burned by its citizens in the face of Napoleon's invasion, and held at seige in World War II.

The name Moscow is from the name of the river, the Moskva, - the name of the river has Baltic-Finnic (a language family) roots and means “a place for washing.”