Maputo (Mozambique)

Formerly Lourenço Marques

Last modified: 2013-01-03 by bruce berry
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• Background
• Matola flag

• Mozambique
• Mozambique : national index
• Maputo

Background

Matola is a city in southern Mozambique, which lies 12 kilometers to the west of the country's capital, Maputo.  Matola is the capital of Maputo Province and has had its own elected municipal government since 1998. It has a port and also the biggest industrial area in Mozambique.
Bruce Berry, 25 June 2008

Matola flag

Matola is the seat of Maputo Province, in Mozambique. According to this website (reported by António Kitabulu Teixeira), its flag is approx. 1:2, with three horizontal stripes of green, a central stripe of white in double width, and yellow.  The municipal emblem is placed in the centre of the white stripe.   The emblem displays a river border scene and includes a book, a cogwheel and a hoe, also found in the national emblem, and also what looks like a smoking pipe, and a scroll reading "CIDADE DA MATOLA / PAZ E PROGRESSO".
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 Dec 2004