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title: "Mozambique — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "Mozambique: capital Maputo, area 799,380 km², population 35,631,653 (2025), currency Mozambican metical. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/mozambique/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Mozambique

**Mozambique: Capital Maputo**

799,380 km² · 35,631,653 people (2025) · Mozambican metical

About 2,470 km of Indian Ocean coastline, more than any other country in southern Africa. The Zambezi crosses the middle of the country and its delta is one of the largest wetland systems on the continent. The Bazaruto archipelago holds East Africa's last viable dugong population.

## The facts

- **Capital:** Maputo
- **Largest city:** Matola
- **Area:** 799,380 km² — 308,642 sq mi
- **Population:** 35,631,653 (2025)
- **Density:** 44.6 people per km²
- **Currency:** Mozambican metical (MZN, MT)
- **Official language:** Portuguese
- **Time zone:** UTC+02:00
- **Calling code:** +258
- **Drives on the:** left
- **ISO codes:** MZ · MOZ
- **Continent:** Africa

## How it compares

- **By area:** 35 of 200
- **By population:** 46 of 200

> Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.

## Countries of a similar size

| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Venezuela | 912,050 | 28,516,896 |
| Namibia | 824,292 | 3,092,816 |
| Mozambique ← | 799,380 | 35,631,653 |
| Pakistan | 796,095 | 255,219,554 |
| Turkey | 783,562 | 85,878,556 |

## Common questions

### What is the capital of Mozambique?

Maputo

### What currency does Mozambique use?

The Mozambican metical (MZN).

### How big is Mozambique?

799,380 km², or 308,642 square miles — 35 of 200 by area.

### Which side of the road does Mozambique drive on?

The left.

## Related pages

- [Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/country/venezuela/)
- [Namibia](https://atoneplace.net/country/namibia/)
- [Pakistan](https://atoneplace.net/country/pakistan/)
- [Turkey](https://atoneplace.net/country/turkey/)
- [Nigeria](https://atoneplace.net/country/nigeria/)
- [Ethiopia](https://atoneplace.net/country/ethiopia/)
- [Egypt](https://atoneplace.net/country/egypt/)
- [Democratic Republic of the Congo](https://atoneplace.net/country/democratic-republic-of-the-congo/)
- [Tanzania](https://atoneplace.net/country/tanzania/)
- [South Africa](https://atoneplace.net/country/south-africa/)
- [Kenya](https://atoneplace.net/country/kenya/)
- [Sudan](https://atoneplace.net/country/sudan/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]