Mozambique: Flag and Facts
Mozambique's flag has green, black, and yellow horizontal bands with white edges around the black, and a red triangle holding a yellow star, an open book, and a crossed rifle and hoe.
- Official name
- Republic of Mozambique
- Capital
- Maputo
- Region
- Eastern Africa
- Population
- 34 million (2025)
- Languages
- Portuguese
- Currency
- Mozambican metical
- Area
- 801,590 km² (309,496 sq mi)
- People
- Mozambican
- Calling code
- +258
- Highest point
- Monte Binga 2,436 m
- Independence
- 25 June 1975 (from Portugal)
- National symbols
- rifle, hoe, and book
About Mozambique
Green means the riches of the land, black the African continent, yellow the country's minerals, white peace, and red the struggle to become independent. The rifle means defense, the hoe for farming, the star for Marxism and internationalism, and the book for education. Those three tools also make up the national symbol.
Early in the second millennium A.D., northern port towns traded with merchants from Somalia, Egypt, Arabia, Persia, and India. After 1500 the Portuguese took over much of that coastal trade and set up colonies. Portugal held on until independence on 25 June 1975. Civil war, drought, and other troubles slowed growth until the mid-1990s. The ruling party dropped Marxism in 1989, and a UN-brokered peace deal ended the fighting in 1992. Coastal lowlands cover most of the country, rising to plateaus and mountains in the west and northwest.
Did you know?
- Monte Binga is Mozambique's highest point at 2,436 m.
- Half of all Mozambicans are younger than 17.4 years.
- Matola is the largest city, ahead of the capital, Maputo.
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Questions about Mozambique
What language is spoken in Mozambique?
Portuguese is the official language.
What is the capital of Mozambique?
Maputo is the capital, with about 1.2 million people in 2023.
Sources
- CIA World Factbook, checked October 8, 2026
- REST Countries data (mledoze/countries), checked October 8, 2026
- Flag artwork: flag-icons (MIT), checked October 8, 2026
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