Matola
Matola is the largest suburb of the Mozambique capital, Maputo, adjacent to its westernmost side. It is the nation's most populated city. Matola is the capital of Maputo Province and has had its own elected municipal government since 1998.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 675,000 residents
- Description: city in Mozambique
- Also known as: “Cidade da Matola”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Maputo.
Maputo
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Maputo is the capital city of Mozambique. Buildings range from old colonial palaces to new high-rise constructions, but the dominant architecture consists of Stalinist-looking concrete-walled boxes, generally with badly eroded paint and rusty security bars.
Matola
- Categories: municipality of Mozambique, big city, district of Mozambique, and locality
- Location: Maputo Province, Mozambique, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-25.9669° or 25° 58′ 1″ southLongitude
32.467° or 32° 28′ 1″ eastPopulation
675,000Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)United Nations Location Code
MZ MATOpen location code
5G6J2FM8+6QOpenStreetMap ID
node 27564983OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Matola” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Matola”
- Arabic: “ماتولا”
- Armenian: “Մատոլա”
- Asturian: “Matola”
- Basque: “Matola”
- Bengali: “মাতোলা”
- Bosnian: “Matola”
- Bulgarian: “Матола”
- Catalan: “Matola”
- Cebuano: “Concelho de Matola”
- Chinese: “馬托拉”
- Chinese: “马托拉”
- Croatian: “Matola”
- Czech: “Matola”
- Danish: “Matola”
- Dutch: “Matola”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماتولا”
- Esperanto: “Matola”
- Estonian: “Matola”
- Finnish: “Matola”
- French: “Matola”
- Georgian: “მატოლა”
- German: “Matola”
- Greek: “Μάτολα”
- Gujarati: “મેટોલા”
- Hebrew: “מטולה”
- Hindi: “मटोला”
- Indonesian: “Matola”
- Irish: “Matola”
- Italian: “Matola”
- Japanese: “マトラ”
- Kannada: “ಮತೋಲ”
- Korean: “마톨라”
- Latvian: “Matola”
- Lithuanian: “Matola”
- Malagasy: “Matola”
- Malay: “Matola”
- Maori: “Matola”
- Marathi: “मॅटोला”
- Northern Frisian: “Matola”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Matola”
- Norwegian: “Matola”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Matola”
- Persian: “ماتولا، موزامبیک”
- Polish: “Matola”
- Portuguese: “Matola”
- Portuguese: “Vila Salazar”
- Romanian: “Matola”
- Russian: “Матола”
- Scots: “Matola”
- Sinhala: “මැටෝලා”
- Slovak: “Matola”
- Slovenian: “Matola”
- Spanish: “Matola”
- Swahili: “Matola, Maputo”
- Swahili: “Matola”
- Swati: “Matola”
- Swedish: “Matola”
- Tamil: “மடோலா”
- Telugu: “మటోల”
- Thai: “มาโทลา”
- Turkish: “Matola”
- Ukrainian: “Матола”
- Urdu: “ماتولا”
- Uzbek: “Matola”
- Venetian: “Matola”
- Vietnamese: “Matola”
- Waray (Philippines): “Matola”
- Zulu: “Matola”
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