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Close ✕Marka (Merca), Somalia
A coastal town in Lower Shabelle, Somalia, some seventy kilometres south-west of Mogadishu, and the place where the last naturally acquired case of smallpox in the world began.
1.7, 44.8 · approximate · last natural smallpox case, October 1977
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates