The only country whose flag features a modern rifle, and it has around 2,500 km of Indian Ocean coastline.
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Mozambique
Republic of Mozambique ยท Moรงambique
Africa
ยท Eastern Africa
0Population
801.59Kkmยฒ of land
$504GDP / person
MaputoCapital
- ISO codes
- MZ ยท MOZ
- Density
- 38 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Portuguese
- Currency
- Mozambican metical (MZN)
- Dial code
- +258
- Internet domain
- .mz
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 13.9430ยฐ S, 37.8380ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Mozambican
- UN region
- Eastern Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $15.29B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 6
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By the numbers
How Mozambique stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
47th
of 242 ยท 0.40% of world population
Land area
37th
of 242 ยท 0.53% of world land
GDP per person
232nd
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
169th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Mozambique
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 30,366,036 people, the 47th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.4 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 801,590 kmยฒ, making it the 37th largest country here - about 8.7 times the size of Portugal.
Population density is about 38 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Maputo, at 25.95ยฐ S, 32.59ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,446,000.
Shares land borders with 6 countries: Malawi, South Africa, eSwatini, Tanzania and Zambia (and 1 more).
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Maputo.
The currency is the Mozambican metical (MZN, symbol MT).
The official language is Portuguese.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Maputo
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UTC+02:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Maputo
Maputo
25.9533ยฐ S, 32.5872ยฐ E
1.45M
2
Beira
Sofala
19.8200ยฐ S, 34.8700ยฐ E
530.6K
3
Nampula
Nampula
15.1360ยฐ S, 39.2930ยฐ E
388.53K
4
Nacala
Nampula
14.5186ยฐ S, 40.7150ยฐ E
224.8K
5
Quelimane
Zambezia
17.8800ยฐ S, 36.8900ยฐ E
188.96K
6
Tete
Tete
16.1700ยฐ S, 33.5800ยฐ E
129.32K
7
Xai-Xai
Gaza
25.0400ยฐ S, 33.6400ยฐ E
128.81K
8
Pemba
Cabo Delgado
12.9830ยฐ S, 40.5323ยฐ E
110.64K
Land neighbours
6 countries share a border with Mozambique.