Moscow
Since its founding in 1147, Moscow has been at the crossroads of history as the capital of empires and a frequent target for invaders. As the capital of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and, today, the Russian Federation, it has played a central role in the development of the largest country in the world.Photo: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Popular Destinations
Outskirts
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The Moscow Outskirts include areas from Moscow's 3rd Ring to Moscow Ring Road.
Domodedovo International Airport
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Moscow Domodedovo International Airport, formally Domodedovo Mikhail Lomonosov International Airport, is an international airport serving Moscow, the capital of Russia.
Sheremetyevo International Airport
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Sheremetyevo International Airport is one of the three main airports of Moscow and the main hub of Russian flag carrier Aeroflot.
Destinations
Central Moscow
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Central Administrative Okrug, or Tsentralny Administrativny Okrug, is one of the twelve administrative okrugs of Moscow, Russia.
Central-West
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Moscow Central-West is in Moscow also part of Central Moscow.
Central-North
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Moscow Central-North is the part of Central Moscow that's north of the Kremlin, east of Tverskaya Street, north of Pokrova Street, the area within the Boulevard Ring, Krasnoselsky south, Meshchansky south & Tverskoy South raions…
Central-South
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Moscow Central-South is in Moscow and also part of Central Moscow.
Central-East
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Moscow Central-East is in Moscow also part of Central Moscow.
Zelenograd and New Moscow
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Zelenograd and New Moscow are two large parts of Moscow city, that lie outside consolidated residential zone of the city, which lies within and just beyond the MKAD.
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Notable Places in the Area
Bolshoi Theatre
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The Bolshoi Theatre is a historic opera house in Moscow, Russia, originally designed by architect Joseph Bové.
Russian State Library
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The Russian State Library is one of the three national libraries of Russia, located in Moscow.
Tsar Bell
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The Tsar Bell, also known as the Tsarsky Kolokol, Tsar Kolokol III, or Royal Bell, is a 6.14-metre-tall, 6.6-metre-diameter bell on display on the grounds of the Moscow Kremlin.
Localities in the Area
Tagansky District
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55°44′29″N 37°39′15″E / 55.74139°N 37.65417°E Tagansky District is a district of Central Administrative Okrug of the federal city of Moscow, Russia, located between the Moskva and Yauza Rivers near the mouth of the latter.
Presnensky District
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55°44′48″N 37°32′13″E / 55.74667°N 37.53694°E Presnensky District, commonly called Presnya, is a district of Central Administrative Okrug of the federal city of Moscow, Russia.
Basmanny District
55°45′53.81″N 37°40′17.70″E / 55.7649472°N 37.6715833°E Coat of arms of Basmanny DistrictBasmanny District is a district of Central Administrative Okrug of the federal city of Moscow, Russia.Moscow
- Type: City with 13,100,000 residents
- Description: capital and most populous city of Russia
- Neighbors: Kaluga Oblast and Moscow Oblast
- Categories: capital of Russia, federal city of Russia, big city, megacity, largest city, capital city, city or town, federal subject of Russia and locality
- Location: Moscow Oblast, Central Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
55.7505° or 55° 45' 2" northLongitude
37.6175° or 37° 37' 3" eastPopulation
13,100,000Elevation
144 metres (472 feet)Inception
1147IATA airport code
MOWUnited Nations Location Code
RU MOWOpen Location Code
9G7VQJ28+6XOpenStreetMap ID
node 1686293227OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
524901Wikidata ID
Q649Moscow Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Musku
- Abkhazian: Москва
- Achinese: Moskow
- Achinese: Moskôw
- Adyghe: Москва
- Afar: Moskva
- Afrikaans: Moskou
- Akan: Moscow
- Albanian: Moska
- Amharic: ሞስኮ
- Angika: मॉस्को
- Arabic: Moscow
- Arabic: موسكو
- Aragonese: Moscú
- Armenian: Մոսկուա
- Armenian: Մոսկվա
- Arpitan: Moscou
- Asturian: Moscú
- Avaric: Moskva
- Avaric: Москва
- Awadhi: मस्को
- Aymara: Mosku
- Azerbaijani (Historic): Moskva
- Azerbaijani: Moskva
- Balinese: Moskow
- Bambara: Moscow
- Bashkir: Мәскәү
- Basque: Mosku
- Bavarian: Moskau
- Belarusian: Масква
- Bengali: মস্কো
- Bhojpuri: मास्को
- Bislama: Moskow
- Bosnian: Moskva
- Breton: Moskov
- Bulgarian: Москва
- Burmese: မော်စကိုမြို့
- Catalan: Moscou
- Cebuano: Moscow
- Central Bikol: Mosku
- Central Kurdish: مۆسکڤا
- Central Kurdish: مۆسکۆ
- Chamorro: Moscow
- Chavacano: Moscow
- Chechen: Москох
- Chinese: Bo̍k-su-kho
- Chinese: 莫斯科
- Church Slavic: Москъва
- Church Slavic: Москꙑ
- Chuvash: Мускав
- Cornish: Moskva
- Corsican: Cità di Mosca
- Corsican: Mosca
- Corsican: Moscù
- Crimean Tatar: Moskova
- Crimean Tatar: Moskva
- Croatian: Moskva
- Czech: Moskva
- Czech: Москва
- Dagbani: Moscow
- Danish: Moskva
- Dhivehi: މޮސްކޯ
- Dimli (individual language): Moskowa
- Dinka: Moccow
- Dotyali: मस्को
- Dutch: Moskou
- Dzongkha: མོསི་ཀོ
- Dzongkha: མཽས་ཀོ།
- Eastern Mari: Моско
- Egyptian Arabic: موسكو
- English: City of Moscow
- English: Moscow, Russia
- English: Moscow, Russian Federation
- English: Moscow, Russian SFSR
- English: Moscow, Soviet Union
- English: Moscow, USSR
- English: Moskovĭ
- English: Moskva, Rossiya
- English: Moskva, Russia
- English: Moskva
- English: Moskva Federal City, Russia
- English: Moskve
- English: Moskvi
- English: Moskvë
- English: Mosky
- English: Москва
- Erzya: Москов ош
- Esperanto: Moskvo
- Estonian: Moskva
- Extremaduran: Moscú
- Faroese: Moskva
- Fiji Hindi: Moscow
- Fijian: Moscow
- Fijian: Mosiko
- Finnish: Moskova
- French: Moscou
- Friulian: Mosche
- Gagauz: Moskva
- Galician: Moscova
- Galician: مؤسکؤ
- Gan Chinese: 莫斯科
- Ganda: Moosko
- Georgian: მოსკოვი
- German: Moskau
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Moscow
- Gilaki: مؤسکؤ
- Gothic: 𐌼𐍉𐍃𐌺𐍅𐌰/Moskwa
- Gothic: 𐌼𐍉𐍃𐌺𐍅𐌰
- Greek: Μόσχα
- Guarani: Moscow
- Guarani: Moscú
- Guarani: Moskva
- Guarani: Mosuku
- Guarani: Москва
- Guianese Creole French: Moskou
- Gujarati: Moscow
- Gujarati: મોસ્કો
- Gun: Moscow
- Haitian: Moskou
- Hakka Chinese: Mo̍k-sṳ̂-khô
- Hausa: Mokekao
- Hausa: Moscow
- Hausa: Moskva
- Hawaiian: Mokekao
- Hebrew: מוסקבה
- Hebrew: מוסקווה
- Hindi: मास्को
- Hungarian: Moszkva
- Icelandic: Moskva
- Ido: Moskva
- Iloko: Moscow
- Inari Sami: Moskova
- Indonesian: Moskow
- Indonesian: Moskva
- Indonesian: Moskwa
- Ingush: Москоа
- Interlingua: Moscova
- Interlingue: Moskwa
- Inuktitut: ᒨᔅᑯ
- Irish: Moscó
- Italian: Mosca
- Jamaican Creole English: Masko
- Japanese: モスクワ
- Japanese: モスクワ市
- Japanese: 莫斯科
- Javanese: Moskou
- Javanese: Moskwa
- Kabardian: Мэзкуу
- Kabiyè: Mɔsɩkʊʊ
- Kabuverdianu: Muskovu
- Kabyle: Mosku
- Kalaallisut: Moskva
- Kalmyk: Москва балһсн
- Kannada: ಮಾಸ್ಕೋ
- Kara-Kalpak: Moskva
- Kara-Kalpak: Moskva qalası
- Kara-Kalpak: Москва қаласы
- Karachay-Balkar: Москва
- Kashmiri: مَسكؤآ
- Kashubian: Mòskwa
- Kazakh: Мәскеу
- Kazakh: Мәскеу қаласы
- Khmer: ម៉ូស្គូ
- Kikuyu: Moscow
- Kirghiz: Москва
- Komi-Permyak: Мӧсква
- Komi: Мӧскуа
- Kongo: Moskva
- Korean: 모스크바
- Kotava: Moskva
- Kurdish: Mosko
- Kurdish: Moskow
- Kölsch: Moskau
- Kölsch: Moßkou
- Ladin: Mosca
- Ladin: Moscau
- Ladin: Moscow
- Ladin: Moskva
- Ladin: Moskwa
- Ladino: Mosku
- Lak: Москав
- Lao: Moscow
- Lao: ມອດໂກ
- Lao: ມອສໂກ
- Latgalian: Moskova
- Latin: Moscua
- Latvian: Maskava
- Lezghian: Москва
- Ligurian: Mosca
- Limburgan: Moskou
- Lingala: Moskú
- Lingua Franca Nova: Moscva
- Literary Chinese: 莫斯科
- Lithuanian: Maskva
- Livvi: Moskovu
- Lojban: Moskuas
- Lojban: moskovas
- Lombard: Musca
- Low German: Moskau
- Low German: Moskou
- Lower Sorbian: Moskwa
- Luxembourgish: Moskau
- Macedo-Romanian: Moscova
- Macedo-Romanian: Moscow
- Macedonian: Москва
- Maithili: मस्को
- Malagasy: Moskva
- Malagasy: Môsikao
- Malay: Moscow
- Malay: موسکو
- Malayalam: മോസ്കോ
- Maltese: Moska
- Manx: Moscow
- Maori: Mohikau
- Marathi: मॉस्को
- Mazanderani: موسکو
- Min Dong Chinese: Moskva
- Min Nan Chinese: Bo̍k-su-kho
- Min Nan Chinese: Moscow
- Min Nan Chinese: Moskva
- Minangkabau: Moskow
- Mingrelian: მოსკოვი
- Mirandese: Moscobo
- Moksha: Моску
- Mongolian: Москва
- Moroccan Arabic: موسكو
- Mossi: Moscow
- Narom: Moscou
- Nauru: Moscow
- Navajo: Halzhin Deezlíní
- Neapolitan: Mosca
- Nepali: मस्को
- Newari: मस्को
- Northern Frisian: Moskau
- Northern Sami: Moskva
- Norwegian: Moskva
- Norwegian Bokmål: Moskva
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Moskva
- Novial: Moskva
- Nyanja: Moscow
- Occitan (post 1500): Moscòu
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܡܘܣܩܒܐ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Moscow
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Moscoƿ
- Oriya: ମସ୍କୋ
- Oromo: Mooskoo
- Ossetian: Мæскуы
- Pampanga: Moscow
- Pampanga: Mosku
- Panjabi: ਮਾਸਕੋ
- Papiamento: Mosku
- Pedi: Moscow
- Pennsylvania German: Moscow
- Persian: مسکو
- Picard: Moscou
- Piemontese: Mosca
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Moscow
- Polish: Moskwa
- Pontic: Μόσχα
- Portuguese: Moscou
- Portuguese: Moscovo
- Pushto: مسکو
- Quechua: Moskwa
- Quechua: Muskuw
- Romanian: Moscova
- Romanian: Москова
- Romansh: Moscau
- Rundi: Moscou
- Russia Buriat: Москва
- Russian: Москва (Россия)
- Russian: Москва (город)
- Russian: Москва, Россия
- Russian: Москва
- Russian: Москва Златоглавая
- Russian: Москве
- Russian: Москвы
- Russian: Нерезиновая
- Russian: Первопрестольная
- Russian: Порт пяти морей
- Russian: Третий Рим
- Rusyn: Москва
- Samoan: Moscow
- Samogitian: Maskva
- Sango: Moscow
- Sanskrit: मास्कोनगरम्
- Santali: ᱢᱚᱥᱠᱚ
- Sardinian: Mosca
- Saterfriesisch: Moskau
- Scots: Moscow
- Scottish Gaelic: Moscobha
- Scottish Gaelic: Mosgo
- Serbian: Moskva
- Serbian: Москва
- Serbo-Croatian: Moskva
- Shona: Moscow
- Sicilian: Mosca
- Sicilian: Musca
- Silesian: Moskwa
- Sindhi: ماسڪو
- Sinhala: මොස්කව්
- Slovak: Moskva
- Slovenian: Moskva
- Somali: Moskow
- South Azerbaijani: موسکو
- Southern Altai: Москва
- Southern Sotho: Moscow
- Spanish: Moscú
- Spanish: Moscú (Rusia)
- Spanish: Moscú (capital de Rusia)
- Spanish: Moscú (capital rusa)
- Spanish: Moscú (ciudad de Rusia)
- Spanish: Moscú (ciudad rusa)
- Spanish: ciudad de Moscú
- Spanish: moscovita
- Spanish: moscovitas
- Sundanese: Moskow
- Sundanese: Moskwa
- Swahili: Moscow
- Swati: Moscow
- Swedish: Moskva
- Swiss German: Moskau
- Tagalog: Moscow
- Tagalog: Mosku
- Tahitian: Moscou
- Tajik: Маскав
- Talysh: Moskva
- Talysh: Moskvə
- Tamil: மாஸ்கோ
- Tatar: Mäskäw
- Tatar: Мәскәү
- Telugu: మాస్కో
- Tetum: Moskovu
- Thai: มอสโก
- Tibetan: མོ་སི་ཁོ།
- Tigrinya: ሞስኮ
- Tok Pisin: Mosko
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Mosekou
- Tosk Albanian: Moskau
- Tumbuka: Moscow
- Turkish: Moskova
- Turkmen: Maskwa
- Turkmen: Moskowa
- Turkmen: Moskwa
- Tuvinian: Москва
- Twi: Moskva
- Tyap: Ma̱si̱kwo
- Tyap: Ma̱si̱kwova
- Tyap: Moskva
- Udmurt: Муско
- Uighur: Moskwa
- Uighur: موسكۋا
- Ukrainian: Москва (Росія)
- Ukrainian: Москва (місто)
- Ukrainian: Москва, РФ
- Ukrainian: Москва, Росія
- Ukrainian: Москва
- Upper Sorbian: Moskwa
- Urdu: ماسکو
- Urdu: ماسکو، روس
- Urdu: ماسکو، روسی فیڈریشن
- Urdu: ماسکو، سوویت یونین
- Urdu: ماسکوا
- Urdu: ماسکو شہر
- Uzbek: Moskva
- Venetian: Mosca
- Venetian: Moska
- Veps: Moskv
- Vietnamese: Mat-xcơ-va
- Vietnamese: Matxcơva
- Vietnamese: Moscow
- Vietnamese: Moskva
- Vietnamese: Mát-xcơ-va
- Vietnamese: Mạc Tư Khoa
- Vlaams: Moskou
- Vlax Romani: Moscova
- Volapük: Moskva
- Võro: Moskva
- Walloon: Moscou
- Waray (Philippines): Moscow
- Welsh: Moscfa
- Welsh: Mosgo
- Western Armenian: Մոսկուա
- Western Frisian: Moskou
- Western Mari: Москва
- Western Panjabi: ماسکو
- Wolof: Mosku
- Wu Chinese: 莫斯科
- Xhosa: Moscou
- Yakut: Москва
- Yiddish: מאָסקװע
- Yiddish: מאסקווע
- Yoruba: Mọsko
- Yoruba: Mọ́skò
- Yue Chinese: Moscow
- Yue Chinese: Moskva
- Yue Chinese: Moskvá
- Yue Chinese: Москва
- Yue Chinese: 莫斯科
- Zeeuws: Moskou
- Zhuang: Moscow
- Zulu: IMoskwa
- Moscohuia
- Måssca
- Маскау
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Moscow. Photo: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0.