The
provinces of Mozambique
Mozambique is divided into 10 provinces (''províncias'') and 1 capital city (''cidade'') with provincial status:
See also
*List of provinces of Mozambique by Human Development Index
*Districts of Mozambique
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district
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...
s. The districts are listed below, by province:
Cabo Delgado Province
Cabo Delgado is the northernmost province of Mozambique. It has an area of and a population of 2,320,261 (2017). As well as bordering Mtwara Region in the neighboring country of Tanzania, it borders the provinces of Nampula and Niassa. The reg ...
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Ancuabe District
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Balama District
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Chiúre District
Chiúre District is a district of Cabo Delgado Province in northern Mozambique
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Ibo District
Ibo District is a small district of Cabo Delgado Province in northern Mozambique
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Macomia District
Macomia District is a district of Cabo Delgado Province in northern Mozambique
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Mecúfi District
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Meluco District
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Mocímboa da Praia District
Mocímboa da Praia District is a district of Cabo Delgado Province in northern Mozambique. The district capital is Mocímboa da Praia
Mocímboa da Praia is a port town in northern Mozambique, lying on the Indian Ocean coast, in Cabo Delgado Prov ...
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Montepuez District
Montepuez District is a district of Cabo Delgado Province in northern Mozambique. It seat lies at Montepuez
Montepuez is the second largest city in the province of Cabo Delgado in Mozambique, after the provincial capital of Pemba Pemba may ref ...
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Mueda District
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Muidumbe District
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Namuno District
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Nangade District
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Palma District
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Pemba-Metuge District
Metuge District is a district of Cabo Delgado Province in northern Mozambique
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Quissanga District
Gaza Province
Gaza is a province of Mozambique. It has an area of 75,709 km2 and a population of 1,422,460 (2017 census), which is the least populous of all the provinces of Mozambique.
Xai-Xai is the capital of the province. Inhambane Province is to t ...
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Bilene Macia District
Bilene Macia District is a district of Gaza Province in south-western Mozambique. Its principal town is Macia. The district is located at the south of the province, and borders with Chókwè District in the north, Xai-Xai District in the east, a ...
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Chibuto District
Chibuto District is a district of Gaza Province in south-western Mozambique. Its principal town is Chibuto. The district is located at the south of the province, and borders with Chigubo District in the north, Panda District of Inhambane Provin ...
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Chicualacuala District
Chicualacuala District (Portuguese: Distrito de Chicualacuala) is a district of Gaza Province in south-western Mozambique. It has a population of 41,638 (2011) and covers . The population density of Chicualacuala District 2.1 residents per square ...
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Chigubo District
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Chókwè District
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Guijá District
Guijá District is a district of Gaza Province in south-western Mozambique. The administrative center of the district is Caniçado. The district is located at the south of the province, and borders with Chigubo District in the north, Chibuto Dis ...
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Mabalane District
Mabalane District is a district of Gaza Province in south-western Mozambique. The administrative center of the district is Mabalane. The district is located at the center of the province, and borders with Chicualacuala District in the north, Chi ...
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Manjacaze District
Manjacaze District is a district of Gaza Province in southwestern Mozambique. Its principal town is Manjacaze. The district is located at the south of the province, and borders with Panda District of Inhambane Province in the north, Inharrime a ...
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Massangena District
Massangena District is a Districts of Mozambique, district of Gaza Province in south-western Mozambique. The administrative center of the district is Massangena. The district is located in the north of the province, and borders with Machaze Distric ...
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Massingir District
Massingir District is a district of Gaza Province in southwestern Mozambique. The administrative center of the district is in Massingir. The district is located in the west of the province, and borders with Chicualacuala District in the north, M ...
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Xai-Xai District
Xai-Xai District is a district of Gaza Province in south-western Mozambique. The administrative center of the district is Chongoene. The district is located in the south of the province, and borders with Chibuto District in the north, Manjacaze ...
Inhambane Province
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Funhalouro District
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Govuro District
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Homoine District
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Inharrime District
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Inhassoro District
Inhassoro District is a district of Inhambane Province in south-east Mozambique. The district is located at the northeast of the province, and borders with Govuro District in the north, Vilanculos District in the southeast, Massinga District in ...
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Jangamo District
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Mabote District
Mabote District is a district of Inhambane Province in south-east Mozambique. Its principal town is Mabote. The district is located at the northwest of the province and borders with Machaze District of Manica Province and Machanga District of S ...
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Massinga District
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Morrumbene District
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Panda District
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Vilanculos District
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Zavala District
Manica Province
Manica is a province of Mozambique. It has an area of 62,272 km² and a population of 1,945,994 (2017 census). The province is surrounded by Zimbabwe in the west, Tete Province in the northwest, Sofala Province in the east, Save River in t ...
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Báruè District
Báruè District is a district of Manica Province in western Mozambique. Its principal town is Catandica. The district is located in the west of the province, and borders with Guro District in the north, Macossa District in the east, Gondola Distri ...
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Gondola District
Gondola District is a district of Manica Province in western Mozambique. The principal town is Gondola. The area of the district is . It has a population of 262,412 as of 2007.
Geography
The district is located in the east of the province, and bor ...
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Guro District
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Machaze District
Machaze District is a district of Manica Province in western Mozambique. The principal town is Machaze. The district is located in the south of the province, and borders with Mossurize District in the north, Chibabava District of Sofala Province ...
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Macossa District
Macossa District is a district of Manica Province in western Mozambique. The principal town is Macossa. The district is located in the east of the province, and borders with Tambara District in the north, Maringué District of Sofala Province in ...
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Manica District
Manica District is a district of Manica Province in western Mozambique. The principal town is Manica. The district is located in the west of the province, and borders with Báruè District in the north, Vanduzi District in the east, Sussundenga ...
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Mossurize District
Mossurize District is a district of Manica Province in western Mozambique. The principal town is Espungabera. The district is located in the south of the province, and borders with Sussundenga District in the north, Chibabava District of Sofala ...
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Sussundenga District
Sussundenga District is a district of Manica Province in western Mozambique. The principal town is Sussundenga. The district is located in the center of the province, and borders with Manica District in the north, Gondola District in the northea ...
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Tambara District
Tambara District is a district of Manica Province in western Mozambique. The principal town is Nhacolo. The district is located in the north of the province, and borders with Tete Province in the north, Chemba District of Sofala Province in the ea ...
Maputo City
Maputo (), formerly named Lourenço Marques until 1976, is the Capital city, capital, and largest city of Mozambique. Located near the southern end of the country, it is within of the borders with Eswatini and South Africa. The city has a popul ...
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Maputo
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Maputo Province
Maputo Province is a province of Mozambique; the province excludes the city of Maputo (which comprises a separate province). The province has an area of and a population of 1,968,906 (2017 census). Its capital is the city of Matola.
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Boane District
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Magude District
Magude District is a district of Maputo Province in southern Mozambique. The principal town is Magude. The district is located in the north of the province, and borders with Massingir and Chókwè Districts of Gaza Province in the north, Manhi ...
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Manhiça District
Manhiça District is a district of Maputo Province in southern Mozambique. The principal town is Manhiça. The district is located in the north of the province, and borders with Magude District in the north, Bilene Macia District of Gaza Province ...
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Marracuene District
Marracuene District is a Districts of Mozambique, district of Maputo Province in southern Mozambique. The principal town is Marracuene. The district is located in the center of the province, and borders with Manhiça District in the north, the city ...
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Matutuíne District
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Moamba District
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Namaacha District
Namaacha District is a district of Maputo Province in southern Mozambique. The principal town is Namaacha. The district is located in the southwest of the province, and borders with Moamba District in the north, Boane District in the east, Matut ...
Nampula Province
Nampula is a province of northern Mozambique. It has an area of and a population of 5,758,920, making it the most populous province in Mozambique (2017 census). Nampula is the capital of the province.
History
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Angoche District
Angoche District is a district of Nampula Province in north-eastern Mozambique, with limits in the north with Mogincual District, in the south with Larde District, to the east with the Indian Ocean and to the west with Mogovolas District. The pr ...
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Eráti District Eráti District is a district of Nampula Province in north-eastern Mozambique. The principal town is Eráti.
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Lalaua District
Lalaua District is a district of Nampula Province in north-eastern Mozambique. The principal town is Lalaua.
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Malema District
Malema District is a district of Nampula Province in north-eastern Mozambique. The principal town is Malema
Malema is a town in the district of Malema. It is situated within the province of Nampula in Mozambique. The district borders the distr ...
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Meconta District
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Mecubúri District
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Memba District
Memba District is a district of Nampula Province in north-eastern Mozambique
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Mogincual District
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Mogovolas District Mogovolas District is a Districts of Mozambique, district of Nampula Province in north-eastern Mozambique. The principal town is Nametil.
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Moma District
Moma District is a district of Nampula Province in north-eastern Mozambique
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Monapo District
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Mossuril District
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Muecate District Muecate District is a district of Nampula Province in north-eastern Mozambique
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Murrupula District
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Nacala-a-Velha District
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Nacarôa District Nacarôa District is a district of Nampula Province in north-eastern Mozambique
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Nampula District
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Ribáuè District
Niassa Province
Niassa is a province of Mozambique. It has an area of 129,056 km2 and a population of 1,810,794 (2017). It is the most sparsely populated province in the country. Lichinga is the capital of the province. There are a minimum estimated 450,000 Ya ...
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Cuamba District
Cuamba District is a district of Niassa Province in north-western Mozambique
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Lago District
Lago District is a district of Niassa Province in north-western Mozambique. The principal town is Metangula. Lago District is bordered to the west by Lake Nyasa, on the south by Lichinga, on the east by Sanga District. Lago shares its northern bo ...
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Lichinga District
Lichinga District is a district of Niassa Province in north-western Mozambique. The principal town is Lichinga.
See also
* Estamos
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Majune District
Majune District is a district of Niassa Province in north-western Mozambique. The principal town is Majune.
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Mandimba District
Mandimba District is a district of Niassa Province in north-western Mozambique. The principal town is Mandimba.
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Marrupa District
Marrupa District is a district of Niassa Province in north-western Mozambique. The principal town is Marrupa.
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Maúa District
Maúa District is a district of Niassa Province in north-western Mozambique. The principal town is Maúa.
* Area: 7,976 km2.
* Population (est. 2005): 52,852
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Mavagoago District
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Mecanhelas District
Mecanhelas District is a district of Niassa Province in northern Mozambique. The principal town is Mecanhelas.
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Mecula District
Mecula District is a district of Niassa Province in north-western Mozambique. The principal town is Mecula.
Part of the Niassa Reserve is located in this district.
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Metarica District
Metarica District is a district of Niassa Province in north-western Mozambique. The principal town is Metarica.
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Muembe District Muembe District is a district of Niassa Province in north-western Mozambique. The principal town is Muembe.
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N'gauma District
N'gauma District is a district of Niassa Province in north-western Mozambique
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Nipepe District
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Sanga District
Sanga District is a district of Niassa Province in north-western Mozambique. The principal town is
Sanga.
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Sofala Province
Sofala is a province of Mozambique. It has a population of 2,259,248 (2017 census). Beira is the capital of the province, named for the ruined port of Sofala which is to the south.
History
Portuguese landholder and imperialist Joaquim Carl ...
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Buzi District
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Caia District
Caia District is a district of Sofala Province in Mozambique. The principal town is
Caia. The district is located in the north of the province, and borders with Chemba District in the north, Marromeu District in the southeast, Cheringoma Distric ...
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Chemba District
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Cheringoma District
Cheringoma District is a district of Sofala Province in Mozambique. The principal town is
Inhaminga. The district is located in the northeast of the province, and borders with Caia District in the north, Marromeu District in the northeast, Muanz ...
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Chibabava District
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Dondo District
Dondo District is a district of Sofala Province in Mozambique. The principal town is
Dondo. The district is located in the center of the province, and borders with Muanza District in the north, the city of Beira and Buzi District in the south, a ...
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Gorongosa District
Gorongosa District is a district of Sofala Province in Mozambique. The principal town is Gorongosa. The district is located in the northwest of the province, and borders with Maringué District in the north, Cheringoma District in the east, Muanz ...
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Marromeu District
Marromeu District is a district of Sofala Province in Mozambique. The principal town is
Marromeu. The district is located in the northeast of the province, and borders with Chinde and Mopeia Districts of Zambezia Province in the north, Cheringom ...
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Machanga District
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Maringué District
Maringué District is a Districts of Mozambique, district of Sofala Province in Mozambique. The principal town is
Maringué. The district is located in the north of the province, and borders with Chemba District in the north, Caia District in the ...
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Muanza District
Muanza District is a district of Sofala Province in Mozambique. The principal town is Muanza. The district is located in the center of the province, and borders with Cheringoma District in the north, Dondo District in the south, Nhamatanda Distr ...
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Nhamatanda District
Tete Province
Tete is a Provinces of Mozambique, province of Mozambique. It has an area of 98,417 km² and a population of 2,648,941 (2017 census).
Tete is the capital of the province. The Cahora Bassa Dam is situated in this province.
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Angónia District
Angónia District is a district in the northern part of Tete Province in the central region of Mozambique. Its administrative center is the town of Ulongué. The district is located in the northwest of the province, and borders with Dedza District ...
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Cahora-Bassa District
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Changara District
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Chifunde District
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Chiuta District
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Doa District
Doa District is a district in Tete Province in the central region of Mozambique
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Macanga District
Macanga is a district situated in the north part of Tete Province in the central region of Mozambique. Its administrative center is the town of Furancungo. The district is located in the north of the province, and borders with Dedza District and L ...
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Magoé District
Magoé District is a district of Tete Province in western Mozambique. Its administrative center is the town of Mpheende. The district is located in the north of the province, and borders with Zumbo District in the north, Marávia District in the ...
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Marávia District
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Moatize District
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Mutarara District
Mutarara District is a district of Tete Province in western Mozambique.
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Tsangano District
Tsangano District is a district of Tete Province in western Mozambique.
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Zumbo District
Zumbo District is a district of Tete Province in westernmost Mozambique. The principal town is Zumbo.
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Zambezia Province
Zambezia ( pt, Zambézia) is the second most-populous province of Mozambique, located in the central coastal region south-west of Nampula Province and north-east of Sofala Province. It has a population of 5.11 million, according to the 2017 censu ...
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Alto Molocue District
Alto Molocue District is a district of Zambezia Province in Mozambique. It covers, 6,368 km2 and has a population of, 278,064.Mozambique September 2007 census
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Chinde District
Chinde District is a district of Zambezia Province in Mozambique. The principal town is Chinde.
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Gilé District Gilé District is a district of Zambezia Province in Mozambique.
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Gurué District
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Ile District
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Inhassunge District
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Lugela District
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Maganja da Costa District
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Milange District
Milange District is a district of Zambezia Province in Mozambique. The town of Milange is the district center.
History
Milange District was one of the areas where the Revolutionary Party of Mozambique (PRM) operated during the Mozambican Civil W ...
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Mocuba District Mocuba District is a district of Zambezia Province in Mozambique. The main town is Mocuba
Mocuba is a city and seat of Mocuba District of Zambezia Province in Mozambique. It is located on the Licungo River.
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Mopeia District Mopeia District is a district of Zambezia Province in Mozambique
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Morrumbala District Morrumbala District is a district of Zambezia Province in Mozambique. The town of Morrumbala is the district headquarters.
The Shire River forms the western boundary of the district, separating the district from Tete Province and Malawi. The Ruo Ri ...
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Namacurra District
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Namarroi District
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Nicoadala District Nicoadala District is a district of Zambezia Province in Mozambique
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Pebane District
Pebane District is a district of Zambezia Province in Mozambique.
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