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Mozambique is a long, thin country down the east coast of Africa, nearly two thousand kilometres from the Rovuma river on the Tanzanian border to the South African one, and a round there is mostly decided by how far along that coast you are. The province is the first tier of the picture, and there are eleven of them.
Ten provinces and the city of Maputo, which has the rank of a province of its own. Niassa, Cabo Delgado and Nampula make up the north, Zambezia, Tete, Manica and Sofala the centre, and Inhambane, Gaza and Maputo the south, with Maputo City as a speck inside the last. Those three groups are how Mozambicans themselves divide the country.
Tete is the odd shape: it is a wedge that reaches inland between Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi. Niassa, in the far north west, is the largest and the emptiest, and borders the lake that Malawians call Malawi. Zambezia is named for the river that crosses it, and Gaza and Inhambane are the two long southern provinces, with Gaza the one that reaches inland to the Limpopo.
The provinces are the Mozambique Districts grouped, so the borders of the two maps match exactly.
Tete is a long wedge of the interior between Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi, crossed by the Zambezi and home to the Cahora Bassa dam. It has no coast, and neither do Manica and Niassa, which are the other inland provinces.
Maputo City is the capital and a province of its own, a small area on the bay at the southern tip of the country, inside Maputo province. On a phone it needs a careful tap.
Eleven: ten provinces, and Maputo City, which is a province in rank.
The north, the centre and the south, which is how Mozambique itself splits the country for the purposes of planning and statistics.
The districts, which number well over a hundred. They are their own quiz.
The tier below this one is Mozambique Districts. For another country at this level, see Rwanda Provinces.
