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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 of Mozambique

    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.