Map of Mozambique

Mozambique is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 18.2° S, 35.0° E. It shares land borders with 6 countries — Eswatini, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Mozambique is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Mozambique shares land frontiers with the following 6 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Mozambique covers about 801,590 km² (309,496 sq mi). That makes it the 34th-largest country in the world by area and the 16th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 38 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 34,090,466, the 45th-largest in the world and the 13th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 2.3% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Mozambique has an average population density of about 43 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 13th by population and 16th by area.

The seat of government is Maputo, and the official currency is the Mozambican metical (MZN, MT), and the main official language is Portuguese. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+02:00.

Mozambique carries the ISO country codes MZ and MOZ, dials on the international calling code +258 and uses the .mz internet domain.

Mozambique shares its land borders with 6 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Tanzania (capital Dodoma, about 68,153,004 people), South Africa (capital Pretoria, about 63,100,945 people), Malawi (capital Lilongwe, about 20,734,262 people), Zambia (capital Lusaka, about 19,693,423 people), Zimbabwe (capital Harare, about 17,073,087 people) and Eswatini (capital Mbabane, about 1,235,549 people).

By area, Mozambique is larger than 4 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 18.2° S, 35.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Mozambique within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Maputo. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Mozambique lies about 2,026 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Mozambique keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+02:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +02:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Mozambican metical (MZN, MT).

The official language is Portuguese, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +258 and websites commonly use the .mz internet domain.

In short, Mozambique is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 6 countries. Its capital is Maputo. Mozambique has a population of about 34,090,466 and covers around 801,590 km² (309,496 sq mi), ranking it 45th in the world by population and 34th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Mozambique.

The flag of Mozambique is composed of three equal horizontal bands of teal, black with white top and bottom edges, and yellow. A red isosceles triangle spanning about two-fifth the width of the field is superimposed on the hoist side with its base on the hoist end. This triangle bears a crossed rifle and hoe in black superimposed on an open white book which is superimposed on a five-pointed yellow star.

The flag of Mozambique is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.