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Quelimane

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Quelimane

 

a city in Mozambique; administrative center of the district of Zambézia . Population, 20,000 (1968). Quelimane is a port on the Mozambique Channel, at the mouth of the Cuácua River. It has a railroad station. Sugar, sisal, cotton, copra, tea, and tobacco are exported. The city is the center of an agricultural region.

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