Beira
Beira is the capital and largest city of Sofala Province, in the central region of Mozambique. Beira is where the Pungwe River meets the Indian Ocean. It is the fourth-largest city by population in Mozambique, after Maputo, Matola and Nampula.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 436,000 residents
- Description: city in Mozambique
- Also known as: “Beira, Mozambique”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Beira railway station and Estádio do Ferroviário.
Beira railway station
Railway station
Photo: Christian Spannagel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Beira railway station is the principal railway station and important landmark in Beira, Mozambique.
Estádio do Ferroviário
Stadium
The Estádio do Ferroviário da Beira is a multi-purpose stadium in Beira, Mozambique. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Clube Ferroviário da Beira. The stadium holds 7,000 people.
Beira
- Categories: municipality of Mozambique, big city, and locality
- Location: Sofala, Central Mozambique, Mozambique, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-19.8341° or 19° 50′ 3″ southLongitude
34.8358° or 34° 50′ 9″ eastPopulation
436,000Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)IATA airport code
BEWUnited Nations Location Code
MZ BEWOpen location code
5GGP5R8P+98OpenStreetMap ID
node 259593578OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1052373Wikidata ID
Q211563
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Beira” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Beira”
- Arabic: “بيرا”
- Armenian: “Բեյրա (Մոզամբիկ)”
- Armenian: “Բեյրա”
- Asturian: “Beira”
- Basque: “Beira”
- Belarusian: “Бейра”
- Belarusian: “Бэйра”
- Bengali: “বেইরা”
- Breton: “Beira”
- Bulgarian: “Бейра”
- Catalan: “Beira”
- Cebuano: “Beira”
- Chinese: “貝拉”
- Chinese: “贝拉”
- Croatian: “Beira”
- Czech: “Beira”
- Danish: “Beira”
- Dutch: “Beira”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيرا”
- Esperanto: “Beira”
- Estonian: “Beira”
- Finnish: “Beira”
- French: “Beira (Mozambique)”
- French: “Beira”
- Galician: “Beira”
- Georgian: “ბეირა”
- German: “Beira”
- Greek: “Μπέιρα”
- Gujarati: “બૈરા”
- Hausa: “Beira”
- Hebrew: “ביירה”
- Hindi: “बीरा”
- Hindi: “बेइरा, मोज़ाम्बीक”
- Hungarian: “Beira”
- Indonesian: “Beira, Mozambik”
- Indonesian: “Beira”
- Irish: “Beira”
- Italian: “Beira”
- Japanese: “ベイラ”
- Kannada: “ಬೀರಾ”
- Kazakh: “Бейра”
- Korean: “베이라”
- Latvian: “Beira”
- Lithuanian: “Beira”
- Malay: “Beira”
- Maori: “Beira, Mozambique”
- Maori: “Beira”
- Marathi: “बेइरा”
- Moksha: “Бэйра”
- Northern Frisian: “Beira”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beira”
- Norwegian: “Beira”
- Persian: “بریا، موزامبیک”
- Persian: “بیرا، موزامبیک”
- Polish: “Beira”
- Portuguese: “Beira, Moçambique”
- Portuguese: “Beira”
- Romanian: “Beira, Mozambic”
- Romanian: “Beira”
- Russian: “Бейра”
- Serbian: “Beira”
- Serbian: “Беира”
- Sinhala: “බෙයිරා”
- Slovak: “Beira”
- Slovenian: “Beira”
- South Azerbaijani: “بیرا، موزامبیک”
- Spanish: “Beira”
- Swahili: “Beira”
- Swedish: “Beira”
- Tamil: “பேய்ரா”
- Telugu: “బీరా”
- Thai: “ไบรา”
- Turkish: “Beira, Mozambik”
- Turkish: “Beira”
- Ukrainian: “Бейра”
- Urdu: “بیئرا، موزمبیق”
- Uzbek: “Beyra”
- Venetian: “Beira”
- Vietnamese: “Beira”
- Waray (Philippines): “Beira, Mozambique”
- Zulu: “Beira”
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