MOZAMBIQUE
(People's republic Mozambique)

Capital: Maputo (before Lourenco Marques)

Flag: the flag consists of wide strips of the green, black and yellow colors divided by narrow strips of white color. From the elevator - a red triangle; in the center of a triangle there is a yellow five-pointed star on which the white book over which black silhouettes of a mattock and the AK47 rifle are crossed is represented.

SLOGAN: Begins "Viva viva FRELIMO".

MONETARY BLOCK: Mozambique escudo (ya) connected till 1977 with the Portuguese escudo in June, 1980 was renamed into metical (mt); it is paper currency in 100 cents. There are coins of 1/2, 1, 2+1/2, 5, 10 and 20 meticais and also banknotes from 50, 100, 500 and 1000 pieces. mt1 = $0,00005 (or $1 = mt19,445) as of 2005.

WEIGHT AND MEASURES: The metric system is used.

HOLIDAYS: New year, on January 1; Day of heroes, on February 3; Women's Day, on April 7; Day of workers, on May 1; Independence Day, on June 25; Victory Day, on September 7; Day of revolution, on September 25; Christmas, on December 25.

TIME: 14:00 - midday.

ARRANGEMENT, SIZE AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Located on the southeast coast of Africa, opposite the islands of Madagascar, Mozambique (Mozambique), earlier known as the Portuguese East Africa, has the area of 801 590 sq.km (309 496 quarter. Miles) of which the earth makes 784 090 sq.km (302 738 quarter) and internal waters of 17 500 sq.km (6 757 sq. miles). Rather, the area occupied with Mozambique is a little less, than is twice more than the State of California. The country stretches for 2,016 km (1,253 miles) of NUS and for 772 km (480 miles) from ese-wnw. It borders on Tanzania on N, the Indian Ocean (Mozambique channel) in the south, the Republic of South Africa in the south, Swaziland, South Africa and Zimbabwe in the south, Zambia and Malawi in the northwest, with the total length of border of 7 041 km (4 375 miles) from which 2470 km (1535 miles) - the coastline.

TOPOGRAPHY

Mozambique is 44% of the coastal lowlands rising to the West to the plateau of 150-610 m (500-2000 feet) above sea level, and on the western border - to higher plateau, from 550 to 910 m (1800-3000 feet), with mountains reaching height about 2440 m (8 000 feet). The highest mountains - Namyuli (2 419 m / 7,936 feet) to provinces Zambia and Bing (2,436 m / 7,992 feet) in the Province of Manika on Zimbabwean border. The most important rivers is Zambezi (flowing the southeast through the center of Mozambique to the Indian Ocean), Limpopo in the south, Saky (Саби) in the center and Lugenda in the north. The most important lake is navigable Lake Malawi (the lake of Nias); The Lake Kakhora-Bassa was created at the expense of the Cahors wine Bass reservoir. In river valleys and deltas the soil is rich and fertile, but southern and central Mozambiki poor and sandy soils, and parts of an interior have dry.