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Southern Mozambique

Maputo

Maputo is the capital city of . 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.
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  • Type: City with 1,240,000 residents
  • Description: capital and chief port of Mozambique
  • Also known as: “Cam Phumo”, “Can Pfumo”, “Kapfumo”, “Lourenço Marques”, and “Mabutu”
Photo: AmigoDia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: James and Alex BonTempo, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include National Library of Mozambique and Maputo Railway Station.

Library
Photo: F Mira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is located in Maputo, . It is located in a structure which formerly housed the Office of Finance of the Colony of Mozambique.

Railway station
Photo: Dumplestilskin, Public domain.
The Central Railway Station is a historic train station in Maputo, . Administered by Mozambique Ports and Railways, it is located on the CFM Sul line, which links to , , and .

Town hall
Photo: Teixant, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or Municipal Council Building of Maputo is the seat of the local government of the capital of . The neoclassical building is located at the head of Praça da Independência, and was erected in 1947.

Maputo

Latitude
-25.9662° or 25° 57′ 58″ south
Longitude
32.5675° or 32° 34′ 3″ east
Population
1,240,000
Elevation
70 metres (230 feet)
IATA airport code
MPM
United Nations Location Code
MZ MPM
Open location code
5G6J2HM8+GX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27565081
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1040652
Wiki­data ID
Q3889
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Maputo” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Maputo”
  • Albanian: “Maputo”
  • Amharic: “ማፑቶ”
  • Arabic: “مابوتو”
  • Aragonese: “Maputo”
  • Armenian: “Մապուտու”
  • Arpitan: “Maputo”
  • Asturian: “Lourenço Marques”
  • Asturian: “Maputo”
  • Asturian: “Maputu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Maputu”
  • Balinese: “Maputo”
  • Basque: “Maputo”
  • Bavarian: “Maputo (Begriffsklearung)”
  • Bavarian: “Maputo”
  • Belarusian: “Ларэнсу-Маркіш”
  • Belarusian: “Мапуту”
  • Bengali: “মাপুতো”
  • Bosnian: “Maputo”
  • Breton: “Maputo”
  • Bulgarian: “Мапуто”
  • Catalan: “Maputo”
  • Cebuano: “Maputo”
  • Central Kanuri: “Maputo”
  • Central Kurdish: “ماپوتۆ”
  • Chechen: “Мапуту”
  • Chinese: “Maputo”
  • Chinese: “馬布多”
  • Chinese: “馬普托”
  • Chinese: “马普托”
  • Croatian: “Maputo”
  • Czech: “Maputo”
  • Danish: “Maputo”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Maputo”
  • Dutch: “Maputo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مابوتو”
  • Esperanto: “Maputo”
  • Estonian: “Maputo”
  • Extremaduran: “Maputo”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Maputo”
  • Finnish: “Maputo”
  • French: “Lourenço Marques”
  • French: “Maputo”
  • Galician: “Maputo”
  • Georgian: “მაპუტუ”
  • German: “Maputo”
  • Greek: “Μαπούτο”
  • Gujarati: “માપુટો”
  • Gujarati: “મૈપુટો”
  • Haitian: “Mapouto”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Maputo”
  • Hausa: “Maputo”
  • Hebrew: “מפוטו”
  • Hindi: “मपूटो”
  • Hindi: “मापुटो”
  • Hindi: “मापुतो”
  • Hungarian: “Maputo”
  • Icelandic: “Mapútó”
  • Ido: “Maputo”
  • Inari Sami: “Maputo”
  • Indonesian: “Maputo”
  • Interlingua: “Maputo”
  • Interlingue: “Maputo”
  • Irish: “Maputo”
  • Italian: “Maputo”
  • Japanese: “マプト”
  • Japanese: “ロウレンソ・マルケス”
  • Japanese: “ロレンソ・マルケス”
  • Javanese: “Maputo”
  • Kabiyè: “Maputo”
  • Kabyle: “Maputo”
  • Kannada: “ಮಪುಟೋ”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾಪುಟೊ”
  • Kazakh: “Мапуту қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Мапуту”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Maputo”
  • Kirghiz: “Мапуту”
  • Kongo: “Maputo”
  • Korean: “로렌수마르케스”
  • Korean: “마뿌또”
  • Korean: “마푸토”
  • Korean: “마푸투”
  • Kotava: “Maputo”
  • Latin: “Maputo”
  • Latvian: “Maputu”
  • Ligurian: “Maputo”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Maputo”
  • Lithuanian: “Maputu”
  • Livvi: “Maputu”
  • Lombard: “Maputo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Maputo”
  • Macedonian: “Мапуто”
  • Malagasy: “Maputo”
  • Malay: “Maputo”
  • Malayalam: “മപൂട്ടോ”
  • Maltese: “Maputo”
  • Maori: “Maputo”
  • Marathi: “मापुतो”
  • Mazanderani: “ماپوتو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Maputo”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Maputo”
  • Minangkabau: “Maputo”
  • Mingrelian: “მაპუტუ”
  • Mirandese: “Maputo”
  • Moksha: “Мапута”
  • Moksha: “Мапуто”
  • Mongolian: “Мапуто”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ماپوتو”
  • Navajo: “Tó Halchíʼí (Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyah)”
  • Navajo: “Tó Halchíʼí”
  • Northern Frisian: “Maputo”
  • Northern Sami: “Maputo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Maputo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Maputo”
  • Norwegian: “Maputo”
  • Novial: “Maputo”
  • Nyanja: “Maputo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Maputo”
  • Ossetian: “Мапуту”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਪੂਤੋ”
  • Papiamento: “Maputo”
  • Persian: “ماپوتو”
  • Piemontese: “Maputo”
  • Polish: “Maputo”
  • Portuguese: “Maputo”
  • Portuguese: “Lourenço Marques” (historical)
  • Quechua: “Maputu”
  • Romanian: “Maputo”
  • Russian: “Кам-Фумо”
  • Russian: “Лоренсу-Маркиш”
  • Russian: “Мапуту”
  • Sardinian: “Maputo”
  • Scots: “Maputo”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Maputo”
  • Serbian: “Мапуто”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Maputo”
  • Shona: “Maputo”
  • Silesian: “Maputo”
  • Sindhi: “مپوتو”
  • Sinhala: “මපුටෝ නගරය”
  • Sinhala: “මපුටෝ”
  • Sinhala: “මාපුටෝ”
  • Slovak: “Maputo”
  • Slovenian: “Lourenço Marques”
  • Slovenian: “Maputo”
  • Somali: “Mabuto”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماپوتو”
  • Spanish: “Lorenzo Márquez”
  • Spanish: “Lourenço Marques”
  • Spanish: “Maputo”
  • Swahili: “Maputo”
  • Swedish: “Maputo”
  • Tagalog: “Maputo”
  • Tajik: “Мапуту”
  • Tamil: “மபூடோ”
  • Tamil: “மபூட்டோ”
  • Tamil: “மாபடோ”
  • Telugu: “మాపూటో”
  • Tetum: “Maputu”
  • Thai: “มาปูตู”
  • Thai: “มาปูโต”
  • Thai: “โลเร็งซูมาร์กึช”
  • Tibetan: “མ་པུ་ཊོ།”
  • Turkish: “Maputo”
  • Turkmen: “Maputu”
  • Udmurt: “Мапуту”
  • Ukrainian: “Мапуту”
  • Urdu: “ماپوتو”
  • Uzbek: “Maputu”
  • Venetian: “Maputo”
  • Veps: “Maputu”
  • Vietnamese: “Maputo”
  • Volapük: “Maputo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Maputo”
  • Welsh: “Maputo”
  • Western Frisian: “Maputo”
  • Western Mari: “Мапуту”
  • Western Panjabi: “ماپوٹو”
  • Wolof: “Maputo”
  • Wu Chinese: “马普托”
  • Xhosa: “EMaputo”
  • Yiddish: “לורענזא מארקעס”
  • Yiddish: “מאפוטא”
  • Yoruba: “Maputo”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬布多”
  • Zulu: “i-Maputo”
  • Zulu: “Maputo”
  • “Maputo”

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