Lourenço Marques: see Maputo Maputo , city (1997 pop. 966,837), capital of Mozambique, a port on the Indian Ocean. It is Mozambique's largest city and its administrative, communications, and commercial center.
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Maputo

formerly (until 1976) Lourenço Marques

Port city (pop., 1997: 989,386), capital of Mozambique. It lies on the northern bank of Espírito Santo Estuary of Delagoa Bay, an inlet of the Indian Ocean. It derived its former name from the Portuguese trader who first explored the region in 1544. The town developed around a Portuguese fortress completed in 1787. Created a city town in 1887, it superseded Moçambique as the capital of Portuguese East Africa in 1907. Since the nation's independence in 1975, the collapse of tourism and reduced access to foreign trade have damaged the city's economy.

Lourenço Marques

(now Maputo), the capital and principal city of Mozambique. Population, 384,000 (1970 census, including suburbs).

Lourenæo Marques is a port on Delagoa Bay in the Indian Ocean (with coal and oil harbors) and an important transit point on the route around Africa. The city is linked by railroads with the Republic of South Africa and Southern Rhodesia. It also has an airport.

Coal, lumber, cotton, sugar, sisal, copra, and fruits are exported from Lourencæo Marques. Cement, ceramic articles, and footwear are produced; metalworking, woodworking, textile, and chemical enterprises are located there. The city has a university and zoological and botanical gardens. It has a seaside health resort.

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