Sofala
Sofala, at present known as Nova Sofala, used to be the chief seaport of the Mwenemutapa Kingdom, whose capital was at Mount Fura. It is located on the Sofala Bank in Sofala Province of Mozambique.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 27,300 residents
- Description: geographical object
- Also known as: “Çofala” and “Nova Sofala”
Sofala
- Categories: archaeological site and locality
- Location: Sofala, Mozambique, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-20.15616° or 20° 9′ 22″ southLongitude
34.7383° or 34° 44′ 18″ eastPopulation
27,300Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)United Nations Location Code
MZ NSOOpen location code
5GFPRPVQ+G8OpenStreetMap ID
node 6401775919OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Sofala” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سفالة”
- Belarusian: “Сафала”
- Catalan: “Sofala”
- Chinese: “索法拉”
- Chinese: “索法拉地區”
- Dutch: “Sofala”
- Esperanto: “Sofala”
- Finnish: “Sofala”
- French: “Sofala”
- German: “Sofala”
- Hebrew: “סופאלה”
- Italian: “Sofala”
- Japanese: “ソファラ”
- Korean: “소팔라”
- Malagasy: “Sofala (tanàna tranainy)”
- Malagasy: “Sofala”
- Malayalam: “നോവ സോഫല”
- Malayalam: “സോഫല”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sofala”
- Norwegian: “Sofala”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sofala”
- Portuguese: “São Caetano de”
- Portuguese: “Sofala Nova”
- Portuguese: “Sofala”
- Russian: “Софала”
- Slovenian: “Sofala”
- Swahili: “Sofala”
- Swedish: “Sofala”
- Ukrainian: “Софала”
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