Mozambique

Mozambique is a country on the Indian Ocean coast of . From the Monte Binga peak, 2,436 m high, to the stunning beaches along the coast, Mozambique is a country of contrasts.
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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.

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is the capital and largest city of , in the central region of Mozambique. is where the meets the Indian Ocean. It is the fourth-largest city by population in Mozambique, after , and .

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is an island in the Nampula Province in with a historical heritage that's among the best in Mozambique, and indeed in all of Africa.

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consists of Mozambique's capital city , and the provinces of Gaza, Inhambane, and Maputo.

is a region in Mozambique. It includes the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Nampula, and Niassa.

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is a region in Mozambique comprising the provinces of Manica, Sofala, Tete and Zambezia province.

Mozambique

  • Type: Country with 21,400,000 residents
  • Description: country in Southeastern Africa; the current form of Mozambique since 1975
  • Also known as: “Colónia de Moçambique”, “Estado de Moçambique”, “Moçambique”, “MOZ”, “mz”, “MZ”, “People’s Republic of Mozambique”, “Portuguese East Africa”, “Província de Moçambique”, “Republic of Mozambique”, “República de Moçambique”, “República Popular de Moçambique”, “République du Mozambique”, and “State of Mozambique”
  • Languages: Portuguese and Makhuwa
  • Neighbors: , , , , , , and
  • Categories: republic, sovereign state, and locality
  • Location: ,
  • View on Open­Street­Map
Latitude of center
-18.24° or 18° 14′ 24″ south
Longitude of center
35° east
Population
21,400,000
Area
801,590 km² (309,496 miles²)
Elevation
138 metres (453 feet)
Capital
Currency
Metical (MZN)
Phone code
.mz
Internet domain
258
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424311658
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
1036973
Wiki­data ID
Q1029
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Mozambique” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ареспублика Мозамбик”
  • Abkhazian: “Мозамбик”
  • Achinese: “Mozambik”
  • Adyghe: “Мозамбик”
  • Afrikaans: “Mosambiek”
  • Akan: “Mozambik”
  • Albanian: “Mozambik”
  • Albanian: “Mozambiku”
  • Amharic: “ሞዛምቢክ”
  • Amis: “Mozambique”
  • Angika: “मोजाम्बीक”
  • Arabic: “موزمبيق”
  • Aragonese: “Mozambique”
  • Armenian: “Մոզամբիկ”
  • Arpitan: “Mozambique”
  • Assamese: “ম’জামবিক”
  • Asturian: “Mozambique”
  • Atayal: “Mozambique”
  • Aymara: “Musambiki”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mozambik”
  • Balinese: “Mozambik”
  • Bambara: “Mozanbik”
  • Bambara: “Mozanbiki”
  • Banjar: “Mozambik”
  • Bashkir: “Мозамбик”
  • Basque: “Mozambike”
  • Bavarian: “Mosambik”
  • Belarusian: “Мазамбік”
  • Bengali: “মোজাম্বিক”
  • Betawi: “Mosambik”
  • Bhojpuri: “मोजाम्बिक”
  • Bishnupriya: “মোজাম্বিক”
  • Bislama: “Mosambik”
  • Bosnian: “Mozambik”
  • Breton: “Mozambik”
  • Bulgarian: “Мозамбик”
  • Burmese: “မိုဇန်ဘစ်”
  • Burmese: “မိုဇမ်ဘစ်”
  • Burmese: “မိုဇမ်ဘစ်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Moçambic”
  • Catalan: “Mozambic”
  • Catalan: “Mozambique”
  • Catalan: “mz”
  • Catalan: “Republic of Mozambique”
  • Cebuano: “Mozambique”
  • Central Bikol: “Mosambik”
  • Central Kanuri: “Mozambique”
  • Central Kurdish: “مۆزامبیک”
  • Central Kurdish: “مۆزەمبیق”
  • Chavacano: “Mozambique”
  • Chechen: “Мозамбик”
  • Chinese: “Mòsāngbǐkè”
  • Chinese: “Mozambique”
  • Chinese: “莫三比克”
  • Chinese: “莫三鼻給”
  • Chinese: “莫三鼻给”
  • Chinese: “莫国”
  • Chinese: “莫桑比克 / 莫三比克”
  • Chinese: “莫桑比克”
  • Chuvash: “Мозамбик”
  • Cornish: “Mosambik”
  • Cornish: “Mozambik”
  • Corsican: “Mozambicu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Mozambik”
  • Croatian: “Mozambik”
  • Czech: “Mosambik”
  • Czech: “Mozambik”
  • Dagbani: “Mozambique”
  • Danish: “Moçambique”
  • Danish: “Mozambique”
  • Dhivehi: “މުސިންބީ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Mozambik”
  • Dotyali: “मोजाम्बिक”
  • Dutch: “MOZ”
  • Dutch: “Mozambique”
  • Dutch: “MZ”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Mozambique”
  • Dzongkha: “མོ་ཛམ་བྷིཀ”
  • Dzongkha: “མོ་ཛམ་བིཀ།”
  • Eastern Mari: “Мозамбик”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “موزامبيق”
  • Esperanto: “Mozambiko”
  • Esperanto: “MZ”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Mozambiko”
  • Estonian: “Mosambiigi Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Mosambiik”
  • Ewe: “Mozambiki nutome”
  • Ewe: “Mozambiki”
  • Extremaduran: “Moçambiqui”
  • Extremaduran: “Mozambiqui”
  • Farefare: “Mozambique”
  • Faroese: “Mosambik”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Mozambique”
  • Finnish: “Mosambik”
  • Finnish: “Mosambikin tasavalta”
  • French: “la République du Mozambique”
  • French: “Moz.”
  • French: “Mozambique”
  • French: “MZ”
  • French: “république du Mozambique”
  • Fulah: “Mosammbik”
  • Fulah: “Mozammbik”
  • Ga: “Mozambik”
  • Gagauz: “Mozambik”
  • Galician: “Mozambique”
  • Ganda: “Mozambiiki”
  • Ganda: “Mozambique”
  • Georgian: “მოზამბიკი”
  • German: “Mocambique”
  • German: “Mosambik”
  • German: “Republik Mosambik”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Moçambique”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Mozambique”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Mozambique”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “República de Moçambique”
  • Gilaki: “مۊزامبيک”
  • Greek: “Μοζαμβίκη”
  • Guarani: “Mosambike”
  • Guarani: “Mosambíke”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Mozanbik”
  • Gujarati: “મોઝામ્બિક”
  • Haitian: “Mozanbik”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Mozambique”
  • Hausa: “Mozambik”
  • Hawaiian: “Mozamabika”
  • Hebrew: “מוזמביק”
  • Hindi: “मोजाम्बिक”
  • Hindi: “मोज़ाम्बिक”
  • Hindi: “मोज़ाम्बीक”
  • Hungarian: “Mozambik”
  • Hungarian: “Mozambiki Köztársaság”
  • Iban: “Mozambique”
  • Icelandic: “Mósambík”
  • Ido: “Mozambik”
  • Igbo: “Mozambik”
  • Igbo: “Mozambique”
  • Iloko: “Mosambike”
  • Iloko: “Mozambique”
  • Inari Sami: “Mosambik täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Mosambik”
  • Indonesian: “Mozambik”
  • Indonesian: “Mozambique”
  • Indonesian: “Republik Mozambik”
  • Interlingua: “Mozambique”
  • Interlingue: “Mozambique”
  • Irish: “Mósaimbíc”
  • Irish: “Poblacht Mhósaimbíc”
  • Italian: “Mozambico”
  • Italian: “Repubblica del Mozambico”
  • Italian: “Repubblica di Mozambico”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Mozambiik”
  • Japanese: “モザンビーク”
  • Japanese: “モザンビーク共和国”
  • Javanese: “Mosambik”
  • Javanese: “Mozambik”
  • Kabiyè: “Moozambiki”
  • Kabyle: “Muzambik”
  • Kabyle: “Muzambiq”
  • Kalaallisut: “Moçambique”
  • Kalmyk: “Мозамбикудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಮೊಜಾಂಬಿಕ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Mozambik”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Мозамбик”
  • Kashmiri: “موزَمبِک”
  • Kashmiri: “मोजम्बीक”
  • Kazakh: “Мозамбик”
  • Khmer: “ម៉ូសំប៊ិក”
  • Khmer: “ម៉ូហ្សំប៉ិក”
  • Kikuyu: “Mozambique”
  • Kikuyu: “Msumbiji”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Mozambike”
  • Kirghiz: “Мозамбик”
  • Kongo: “Musambiki”
  • Korean: “모잠비끄”
  • Korean: “모잠비끄공화국”
  • Korean: “모잠비크”
  • Kotava: “Mozambika”
  • Kurdish: “Mozambîk”
  • Kurdish: “مۆزامبیک”
  • Ladin: “Mosambich”
  • Ladino: “Mosambiko”
  • Lao: “ໂມແຊມບິກ”
  • Latgalian: “Mozambika”
  • Latin: “Mozambicum”
  • Latvian: “Mozambika”
  • Latvian: “Mozambikas Republika”
  • Ligurian: “Moçambico”
  • Limburgan: “Mozambique”
  • Lingala: “Mozambíki”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Mosambic”
  • Literary Chinese: “莫三比克”
  • Literary Chinese: “莫桑比克”
  • Lithuanian: “Mozambikas”
  • Livvi: “Mozambiku”
  • Lojban: “mosambik”
  • Lombard: “Muzambich”
  • Low German: “Mosambik”
  • Low German: “Mosambyk”
  • Low German: “Republik Mosambyk”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Mosambik”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Mozambiki”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mosambik”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Mozambic”
  • Macedonian: “Мозамбе”
  • Macedonian: “Мозамбик”
  • Malagasy: “Mozambika”
  • Malagasy: “Môzambika”
  • Malay: “Mozambik”
  • Malay: “Mozambique”
  • Malayalam: “മൊസാംബിക്ക്”
  • Malayalam: “റിപ്പബ്ലിക്ക് ഓഫ് മൊസാംബിക്ക്”
  • Maltese: “il-Mozambique”
  • Maltese: “Możambik”
  • Maltese: “Mozambique”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Mozambique”
  • Manipuri: “ꯃꯣꯓꯥꯝꯕꯤꯛ”
  • Manx: “Mosambeeck”
  • Manx: “MOZ”
  • Manx: “Mozambique”
  • Manx: “MZ”
  • Manx: “y Vosambeeck”
  • Manx: “Yn Vosambeeck”
  • Maori: “Mohapiki”
  • Marathi: “मोझांबिक”
  • Marathi: “मोझाम्बिक”
  • Mazanderani: “موزامبیک”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Mozambique”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mozambique”
  • Minangkabau: “Mozambik”
  • Mingrelian: “მოზამბიკი”
  • Mirandese: “Moçambique”
  • Moksha: “Мозамбик”
  • Mongolian: “Мозамбик”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “موزامبيق”
  • N'Ko: “ߡߏߖ߭ߊ߲ߓߌߞ”
  • N'Ko: “ߡߏߖ߭ߊ߲ߓߌߞߌ߬”
  • Nauru: “Mozambique”
  • Navajo: “Dleesh Biniiʼí Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “मोजाम्बिक”
  • Newari: “मोजाम्बिक”
  • North Ndebele: “Mozambique”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mosambik”
  • Northern Luri: “موزامبیک”
  • Northern Sami: “Mosambik dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Mosambik”
  • Northern Sami: “Mosambika dásseváldi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mosambik”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Mosambik”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mosambik”
  • Norwegian: “Mosambik”
  • Novial: “Mozambik”
  • Nyanja: “Mozambique”
  • Obolo: “Mozambik”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Moçambic”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mosambice”
  • Oriya: “ମୋଜାମ୍ବିକ”
  • Oriya: “ମୋଜାମ୍ବିକ୍‌”
  • Oromo: “Moozaambiik”
  • Oromo: “Moozaambik”
  • Ossetian: “Мозамбик”
  • Pali: “मोजम्बीक”
  • Pampanga: “Mosambíki”
  • Pampanga: “Mozambique”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੋਜ਼ਾਮਬੀਕ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੋਜ਼ੈਂਬੀਕ”
  • Papiamento: “Mozambique”
  • Pedi: “Mozambique”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Mosambik”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Mosambique”
  • Persian: “موزامبیک”
  • Piemontese: “Mosambich”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Mozambique”
  • Polish: “Mozambik”
  • Portuguese: “Mocambique”
  • Portuguese: “Moçambique”
  • Portuguese: “MOZ”
  • Portuguese: “mz”
  • Portuguese: “MZ”
  • Portuguese: “Republica de Mocambique”
  • Portuguese: “República de Moçambique”
  • Pushto: “موزامبيک”
  • Pushto: “موزمبيق”
  • Quechua: “Mozambique”
  • Quechua: “Musambik”
  • Quechua: “Musampiki”
  • Romanian: “Mozambic”
  • Romansh: “Mosambic”
  • Rundi: “Mozambiki”
  • Russia Buriat: “Мозамбик”
  • Russian: “Мозамбик”
  • Russian: “Республика Мозамбик”
  • Sakizaya: “Mozambique”
  • Samogitian: “Mozambėks”
  • Sango: “Mözämbîka”
  • Sanskrit: “मोजम्बीक”
  • Sardinian: “Mozambico”
  • Sardinian: “Mozambicu”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Mosambik”
  • Scots: “Mozambique”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Mòsaimbic”
  • Serbian: “Mozambik”
  • Serbian: “Мозамбик”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mozambik”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းမူဝ်ႇၸမ်းပိၵ်ႈ”
  • Shona: “Mazambuko”
  • Shona: “Mozambique”
  • Sicilian: “Mozambicu”
  • Silesian: “Mozambik”
  • Sindhi: “موزمبيق”
  • Sindhi: “موزمبیق”
  • Sinhala: “මොසැම්බික්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Mosambiikk tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Mosambikk”
  • Slovak: “Mozambická republika”
  • Slovak: “Mozambik”
  • Slovenian: “Mozambik”
  • Somali: “Musambiik”
  • Somali: “Musanbiig”
  • South Azerbaijani: “موزامبیک”
  • South Ndebele: “Mozambique”
  • Southern Sotho: “Mozambiki”
  • Spanish: “Mozambique”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Mozambique”
  • Spanish: “República de Mozambique”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵎⵓⵣⴰⵎⴱⵉⴽ”
  • Sundanese: “Mosambik”
  • Swahili: “Msumbiji”
  • Swati: “IMozambikhi”
  • Swati: “Mozambiki”
  • Swedish: “Mocambique”
  • Swedish: “Moçambique”
  • Swedish: “Mozambique”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Mocambique”
  • Swiss German: “Mosambik”
  • Sylheti: “ꠝꠥꠎꠣꠝ꠆ꠛꠤꠇ”
  • Tagalog: “Mozambique”
  • Tajik: “Мозамбик”
  • Talysh: “Mozambik”
  • Tamil: “மொசாம்பிக்”
  • Tamil: “மொசாம்பிக்கு”
  • Taroko: “Mozambique”
  • Tatar: “Мозамбик”
  • Telugu: “మొజాంబిక్”
  • Tetum: “Mosambike”
  • Thai: “ประเทศโมซัมบิก”
  • Thai: “โมซัมบิก”
  • Thai: “โมแซมบิค”
  • Tibetan: “མོ་ཛམ་བིཀ།”
  • Tibetan: “མོ་ཛམ་བིག།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሞዛምቢክ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Mosēmipiki”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Mosambik”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Mosambik”
  • Tsonga: “Mozambique”
  • Tsonga: “Muzambhiki”
  • Tswana: “Mozambique”
  • Tumbuka: “Mozambique”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “موزمبيق”
  • Turkish: “Mozambik”
  • Turkmen: “Mozambik”
  • Tyap: “Mozambik”
  • Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Mozambik”
  • Udmurt: “Мозамбик”
  • Uighur: “موزامبىك”
  • Ukrainian: “Мозамбік”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Мозамбік”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Mosambik”
  • Urdu: “موزمبیق”
  • Urdu: “موزنبیق”
  • Uzbek: “Mozambik”
  • Venda: “Mozambikwi”
  • Venetian: “Mozanbico”
  • Veps: “Mozambik”
  • Veps: “Mozambikan Tazovaldkund”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Mozambique”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Mozambique”
  • Vietnamese: “Mô-dăm- bích (Mozambique)”
  • Vietnamese: “Mô-dăm-bích”
  • Vietnamese: “Mozambique”
  • Volapük: “Mozambikän”
  • Võro: “Mosambiik”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mozambique”
  • Welsh: “Mosambic”
  • Welsh: “Mosambîc”
  • Welsh: “Mozambique”
  • Western Frisian: “Mozambique”
  • Western Frisian: “Mozambyk”
  • Western Panjabi: “موزمبیق”
  • Wolof: “Mosàmbig”
  • Wolof: “Mosambik”
  • Wu Chinese: “莫桑比克”
  • Xhosa: “Mozambikh”
  • Yakut: “Мозамбик”
  • Yiddish: “מאזאמביק”
  • Yiddish: “מאזאַמביק”
  • Yoruba: “Mòsámbìk”
  • Yoruba: “Mòsámbìkì”
  • Yoruba: “Moṣamibiku”
  • Yue Chinese: “莫三鼻給”
  • Zeeuws: “Mozambique”
  • Zhuang: “Mozambique”
  • Zulu: “i-Mozambique”
  • Zulu: “IMozambiki”
  • “ma Mosanpi”
  • “ma Mosanpiki”
  • “Mosambiik”
  • “MOZ”
  • “Mozambėks”
  • “Mozambic”
  • “Mozambique”
  • “MZ”
  • “मोजाम्बिक”

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