The Republic of Mozambique (Portuguese: A República de Moçambique) is located in southeastern Africa. It is bordered by Tanzania to the north, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the south. The capital maputo.
It has a land area of 800,000 square kilometers and a population of 31 million.
The Flag and Coat of Arms of Mozambique have crossed rifles and hoes. The rifle is an AK47.
Mozambique produces about 45% of the world's cashew nuts and is known as the "home of the world's cashew nuts".
Mozambique has experienced nearly three decades of war, and it is estimated that at least 3 million mines have been left behind throughout the country, and about 20 people are touched every month.
Mozambique has a large herd of elephants, so it was once one of the most ivory-rich countries in the world. But now to protect elephants, they strictly ban the ivory trade.
28.4% of Mozambique's inhabitants are Catholic, 17.9% are Muslim, and most of the others are primitive and Christian.
Mozambique is a multi-ethnic, multi-ethnic country with about 60 ethnic groups. The main ethnic groups are the Makue-Lomé (about 40 per cent of the total population), the Shona-Karanga, the Shanga, the Zaga, the Malawi-Nyanga, the Maconde and the Yao.
When Mozambique first became independent, the name of the country was the People's Republic of Mozambique, which was a socialist country. However, due to the drastic changes in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union became weaker and thinner, changed the name of the country to the Republic of Mozambique, and abandoned socialism.
The arable land area of Mozambique is 35 million hectares (equivalent to 525 million mu), 6 million hectares have been developed, and the livestock area is 12 million hectares. Agricultural output accounts for 25% of the total GDP and 15% of Mozambique's exports. Cashew nuts, cotton, sugar and sisal are traditional export agricultural products. The main food crops are corn, rice, soybeans, cassava and so on
Mozambique is a purely agrarian country, and although it has developed some with the help of China in recent years, it is still one of the least developed countries and heavily indebted poor countries in the world.
Although Mozambique is very rich in mineral resources, it mainly includes tantalum (the world's first), coal, iron, copper, gold, titanium and natural gas. However, mining and smelting technology could not keep up, and it could only be based on agriculture, and 72% of the country's prime-age labor force was engaged in agricultural production, especially after the civil war after independence, which also led to Mozambique remaining very poor.
Located between Mozambique and the island of Madagascar, the Strait of Mozambique is about 1670 km long, with an average width of 450 km and a maximum water depth of 3500 m, making it the longest strait in the world and the largest strait in the world.
Mozambique also has a rich variety of gem resources, mainly including red sapphire, aquamarine, tourmaline, morganite, garnet and beryl.
The phenomenon of illegal felling of trees in Mozambique is very serious, and even industrialized, according to statistics, the loggers in Mozambique destroy forests in a year, which is equivalent to the size of 20 Paris.
With Portuguese as its official language, Mozambique became independent from the Portuguese colonies in 1975. As a country with no constitutional relations with the United Kingdom, it joined the Commonwealth in 1995 with special examples.
In 2008, The per capita daily income in Mozambique was only 1.6 yuan. But they heard that they donated 40,000 yuan to China when the Wenchuan earthquake struck China on May 12.
In June 2018, the Maputo Cross-Sea Bridge, built by China Road and Bridge Company, was officially opened to traffic, and this 3-kilometer-long cross-sea bridge has become the largest suspension bridge in Africa with a main span of 680 meters.
Mozambicans have 17.2 acres of arable land per capita. China's per capita arable land area is only 1.4 mu. Mozambique has 12 times more arable land per capita than China. In other words, if Chinese were allowed to manage mozambique's land, it could feed 360 million people.