Southern Africa(UN: Eastern Africa)

Mozambique
Republic of Mozambique
A long Indian Ocean coastline of Swahili trading ports, five centuries of Portuguese presence, a liberation war, a long civil war, and now major offshore gas.
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Mozambique in pictures
Flag, landscapes, landmarks and wildlife you can meet in the games. Photographs come from each subject’s Wikipedia article.

Flag
Flag of Mozambique
National flag
- Bazaruto Archipelago
Landscape
Bazaruto Archipelago
A real place in Mozambique
- Ilha de Moçambique
Landmark
Ilha de Moçambique
A coral island that was the trading capital of East Africa for centuries.
- Bazaruto Archipelago
Landmark
Bazaruto Archipelago
One of the last homes of the dugong in the western Indian Ocean.
- Gorongosa National Park
Landmark
Gorongosa National Park
A park emptied by war and rebuilt animal by animal since 1994.
- African wild dog
Wildlife
African wild dog
The pack sneezes to vote on whether it is time to hunt.
- Southern ground hornbill
Wildlife
Southern ground hornbill
It can live for sixty years and only raises one chick every nine.
- Coelacanth
Wildlife
Coelacanth
Thought extinct for 65 million years until one was caught in 1938.
- Dugong
Wildlife
Dugong
Sailors' 'mermaids' — it grazes underwater meadows like a cow.
- Whale shark
Wildlife
Whale shark
The biggest fish alive, and it eats only tiny plankton.
- Green sea turtle
Wildlife
Green sea turtle
Females return to the very beach where they hatched, decades later.
- Greater honeyguide
Wildlife
Greater honeyguide
It calls humans to a bees' nest, then shares the wax after the raid.
- Lake Malawi cichlids
Wildlife
Lake Malawi cichlids
Over 800 species live here and nowhere else — many carry eggs in their mouths.
- Nyala
Wildlife
Nyala
Males are shaggy and grey, females bright chestnut — as if two species.
- Maputo
City
Maputo
Capital of Mozambique
Capital
Maputo
Population
35,631,653
World Bank, 2025
Area
801,590 km²
Currency
Mozambican metical
GDP per person
$627
Current US$, 2025
Life expectancy
63.8 yrs
World Bank, 2024
Urban population
37.2%
UN member
Yes
Quick facts
Did you know?
Mozambique joined the Commonwealth in 1995 without ever being a British colony.
Timbila orchestras play composed, multi-part music on wooden xylophones.
Your route
Where to start with Mozambique
Every chapter above begins with the essentials and then lets you keep going deeper — four levels of depth, or your own question, researched from this country's reference data and our sourced library.
Go deeper: Orientation of Mozambique
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Reference figures come from the World Bank Open Data API and the ISO 3166 country dataset, each shown with its year. Historical and cultural text is written by our editors and marks contested dating where scholars disagree. The "go deeper" chapters are generated live by Africa AI from that same reference data and our sourced library — check them before quoting. Borders shown are for orientation and do not imply a position on any dispute.