MZ · Curated travel guide
Monte Binga, Quirimbas Islands, Cahora Bassa Dam and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Mozambique and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets.
Highest mountain of Mozambique
Mozambique's highest mountain and Zimbabwe's second-highest, in the Chimanimani Mountains on the Mozambique–Zimbabwe border, within the Chimanimani Transfrontier Park, Manica Province.
Photo: Axel Bohnstedt, CC BY-SA 3.0
Island group in Mozambique off the Indian Ocean
An archipelago in the western Indian Ocean off north-eastern Mozambique, in the Mozambique Channel near Pemba, capital of Cabo Delgado province. Its roughly 32 islands, among them Ibo, Matemo, Medjumbe, Quirimba, Metundo, Quisiva, Vamizi Island and Rolas Island, run north towards the border with Tanzania's Mtwara region.
Photo: Ewald De Korte, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Dam in Mozambique
A dam across the Zambezi in Mozambique, finished in 1979. Its reservoir, Cahora Bassa Lake, was built mainly to generate conventional hydroelectric power for South Africa.
Photo: Nelson Deolinda Amin…, CC BY 3.0
Railway bridge in Mozambique spanning the Zambezi
A bridge over the lower Zambezi between Mutarara and Vila de Sena, in Mozambique, in effect joining the country's two halves. It was first built as a railway bridge linking Malawi and the Moatize coal fields with the port of Beira.
Photo: Erik Cleves Kristensen, CC BY 2.0
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Bridge in Maputo Bay, Mozambique
A suspension bridge over Maputo Bay in southern Mozambique, linking Maputo, the capital, on the north bank, with Katembe, its detached suburb on the south bank.
Photo: Kejun Li, CC BY-SA 2.0
Chapel in Mozambique
A chapel in Stone Town at the far eastern point of the Island of Mozambique, which lies off the African coast of Mozambique.
Photo: Erik Cleves Kristensen, CC BY 2.0
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Mountain in Mozambique
A mountain in northern Mozambique, approximately 1,700 metres high, famous for its old-growth rainforest covering about 7,000 hectares.
Photo: Conradie W, Bittencourt-Silva GB, Engelbrecht HM, Loader SP, Menegon M, Nanvonamuquitxo C, Scott M, Tolley KA (2016)…, CC BY 4.0
Library in Maputo, Mozambique
Mozambique's national library in Maputo, in a building that once held the Office of Finance of the Colony of Mozambique.
Photo: F Mira from Lisbon, Portugal, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Protected natural area in Mozambique
A nature reserve in Mozambique's Niassa and Cabo Delgado provinces, covering over 42,000 square kilometres, the largest protected area in the country.
Photo: USAID Africa Bureau, Public domain
Mountain in Mozambique
Mozambique's second-highest mountain and the highest in Zambezia Province, 2,419 m (7,936 ft) high. Henry Edward O'Neill, British consul in Mozambique, measured, surveyed and described it in 1886.
Photo: Asybaris01, Public domain
Officially the Republic of Mozambique, a Southeast African country. Tanzania lies to its north, Zambia and Malawi to its northwest, Zimbabwe to its west, South Africa and Eswatini to its south and southwest, and the Indian Ocean to its east, where the Mozambique Channel separates it from Madagascar, Mayotte and the Comoros. Maputo is its capital and biggest city.
Officially The Republic of Mozambique. Known locally as Moçambique.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Monte Binga, Quirimbas Islands, Cahora Bassa Dam and Dona Ana Bridge and others.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Mozambique that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
Portuguese. The currency is MZN.
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