Merca

American  

[mer-kah] / ˈmɛr kɑ /

noun

1. a city in S Somalia.

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Merca British  

/ ˈmɛəkə /

noun

1. a port in S Somalia on the Indian Ocean. Pop: 189 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

In 1987, she returned to Somalia and recommenced treating TB, first in Beledweyne, then in Mogadishu, and eventually in Merca, trying to stay out of the way of Somalia’s civil war.

From Washington Post

In Merca, her house was shot and she was given a handwritten death threat.

From Washington Post

I visited “Koch Hospital,” Tonelli’s TB treatment center in Merca, on the Indian Ocean south of Mogadishu, for three days.

From Washington Post

In a sign of the Shabab's recent strength, the group last month briefly took control of a key port, Merca, in southern Somalia.

From Los Angeles Times

That attack, and the more recent fight for control of the port town of Merca, have confirmed that the militant Islamists are not a spent force despite Amisom being on the ground since 2007.

From BBC