Maputo, Portuguese and the metical for a first look at Mozambique
Located in coastal eastern Africa, Mozambique has its capital in Maputo. This guide covers the essentials and flags the details to check before you travel.
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Maputo is Mozambique’s capital and a city that can serve as an initial reference when researching the destination before planning a trip.
The place
What makes it special
- Capital of Mozambique
- A starting point for destination research
Travel atlas
3 articlesArticles in Maputo
Guides to this place
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Guides to this place
3 related guides
Sources and references
This profile summarises our destination guides. Their research sources and the geographical reference are listed below.
- Mozambique · Wikidata
- Mozambique · Wikidata
- Mozambique · Wikidata
- Mozambique · Wikidata
- Mozambique · World Countries — mledoze
- Mozambique · World Bank Open Data
- Mozambique · DBpedia
- Epistemologías del Sur y alternativas feministas de vida: las cenicientas de nuestro Mozambique quieren hablar · OpenAlex
- Maputo · GeoNames · Datos geográficos bajo CC BY 4.0; requiere atribución a GeoNames. · Fuente: GeoNames
- Maputo, Zona Sul, Mozambique · OpenStreetMap · ODbL 1.0; atribución y obligación de compartir bases derivadas. · Fuente: OpenStreetMap
- Maputo Airport · OpenFlights · ODbL 1.0 (base de datos) / DbCL 1.0 (contenidos) · Maputo Airport · OpenFlights · ODbL 1.0
- Maputo · Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · Wikidata · Q3889
- Place identification and coordinates
Profile updated: 11/10/2026