Southern Africa
Mozambique
Maputo Province

Maputo Bay

Maputo Bay, formerly also known as Delagoa Bay from Baía da Lagoa in Portuguese, is an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast of , between 25° 40' and 26° 20' S, with a length from north to south of over 90 km long and 32 km wide.
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  • Type: Bay
  • Description: bay
  • Also known as: “Bahia de Machangulo”, “Baia de Alagoa”, “Baia de Dalagoa”, “Baíade Lourenço Marques”, “Delagoa Bay”, and “Lourenço Marques Port”

Maputo Bay

Latitude
-25.98333° or 25° 59′ south
Longitude
32.7° or 32° 42′ east
Open location code
5G6J2M8X+MX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2550815031
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
1040651
Wiki­data ID
Q1134899
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Satellite Map

Discover Maputo Bay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Maputo Bay” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Delagoabaai”
  • Afrikaans: “Maputobaai”
  • Arabic: “خليج مابوتو”
  • Belarusian: “заліў Мапуту”
  • Belarusian: “Мапуту (заліў)”
  • Belarusian: “Мапуту”
  • Bengali: “দেলাগোয়া উপসাগর”
  • Bengali: “মাপুতো উপসাগর”
  • Bulgarian: “Мапуто (залив)”
  • Bulgarian: “Мапуто”
  • Catalan: “Badia de Lourenço Marques”
  • Catalan: “Badia de Maputo”
  • Catalan: “badia Delagoa”
  • Catalan: “Badia Delagoa”
  • Catalan: “Delagoa Bay”
  • Cebuano: “Baía de Maputo”
  • Chinese: “打剌告卑”
  • Chinese: “馬普托灣”
  • Chinese: “马普托湾”
  • Croatian: “Zaljev Maputo”
  • Dutch: “Delagoabaai”
  • Dutch: “Maputobaai”
  • Finnish: “Maputonlahti”
  • French: “Baia da Lagoa”
  • French: “Baía da Lagoa”
  • French: “Baía de Lourenço Marques”
  • French: “Baia de Maputo”
  • French: “Baía de Maputo”
  • French: “Baie de Delagoa”
  • French: “baie de Maputo”
  • French: “Baie de Maputo”
  • French: “Delagoa Bay”
  • French: “Maputo Bay”
  • Georgian: “მაპუტუს ყურე”
  • German: “Baía de Maputo”
  • German: “Bucht von Maputo”
  • German: “Delagoa-Bucht”
  • German: “Maputo Bay”
  • German: “Maputo-Bucht”
  • Hebrew: “מפרץ מפוטו”
  • Indonesian: “Teluk Maputo”
  • Italian: “Baia di Maputo”
  • Japanese: “マプト湾”
  • Korean: “마푸투만”
  • Lithuanian: “Maputo įlanka”
  • Lithuanian: “Maputu įlanka”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bocht faan Maputo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Delagoa Bay”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Maputobukta”
  • Norwegian: “Maputobukta”
  • Persian: “خلیج دلاگوا”
  • Persian: “خلیج ماپوتو”
  • Polish: “Maputo”
  • Portuguese: “Baía de Lourenço Marques”
  • Portuguese: “Baía de Maputo”
  • Russian: “Делагоа залив”
  • Russian: “Делагоа”
  • Russian: “Мапуту”
  • Serbian: “Залив Делагоа”
  • Serbian: “Мапутски залив”
  • Slovenian: “Baía de Maputo”
  • Slovenian: “Delagojski zaliv”
  • Slovenian: “Maputski zaliv”
  • Spanish: “Bahia de Delagoa”
  • Spanish: “Bahía de Delagoa”
  • Spanish: “Bahia de maputo”
  • Spanish: “Bahía de Maputo”
  • Spanish: “Bahia Delagoa”
  • Spanish: “Bahía Delagoa”
  • Swedish: “Delagoabukten”
  • Swedish: “Maputobukten”
  • Ukrainian: “Мапуту”
  • Uzbek: “Delagoa”
  • Venetian: “Baja de Maputo”
  • Vietnamese: “Vịnh Maputo”
  • Yue Chinese: “Baía da Lagoa”
  • Yue Chinese: “Baía de Maputo”
  • Yue Chinese: “Delagoa Bay”
  • Yue Chinese: “Maputo Bay”
  • Yue Chinese: “打剌告卑”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Maputo Bay”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.