Location: Africa
Capital: Maputo (1.000.000 inhab.)
Main Cities: Nampula, Beira, Nacala, Matala
Population: 18,400,000
Area: 799,379 km2
Coin: 1 metical = 100 centavos
Languages: Portuguese, languages Bantu
Religions: Roman Catholic, Moslem, Animist, Protestant
The Independence's Year: 1975
Mountains: Mt. Binga
Rivers: Zambesi, Limpopo, Save, Rovuma
Lakes: Malati, Cahora Bassa (artificiale)

This ex Portuguese colony, that overlooks the Indian ocean with thousand of kilometers of coasts often very beautiful, it is an a little inhabited state (density 20 abs / Kmq) and with regime for many years Marxist-Leninist, that lately it is opening to democratic reforms and the tourism.
The country is poor, also because of long and bloody civil wars.
It produce sugar reed, cotton and coconut palm; the subsoil furnishes good resources (gas, coal and iron).
Politic and economic situation of the Country starded to improve from the end of civil war (1992), also if is still possible to touch poverty and decay, heritage of comunist regime and civil war.
The beauty of Indian Ocean coast allowed a moderate turistic development with the opening of new infrastructures.
Ilha de Mozambico, in the north of the Country, is a fascinating center, dominated by portuguese architectures, while Bazaruto Islands, in front of Vilanculos, are wonderful seaside location.

September '11	September '11
Reportage Malawi e Mozambico	Mozambico

 

Photographies to greater solution can be found to the page Southern Africa Gallery