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Exploring Mozambique: A Quiz on Geography and Culture

Test your knowledge about Mozambique with this engaging quiz covering geography, culture, and historical facts.

1 The population density of Mozambique: How many people are there per square kilometre?

2 What % of the area of Mozambique is water?

3 The SADC ________ protocol is aimed at making the Southern African region more competitive by eliminating tariffs and other trade barriers.

4 Who played Da Silva in the movie Mozambique?

5 What timezone is Mozambique in?

6 What role did Paul Hubschmid play in the movie Mozambique?

7 What is the native name for Mozambique?

8 When was the Mozambique movie released?

9 What timezone is Mozambique in during daylight savings?

10 How many square miles is Mozambique in area?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • tufo is a Mozambican dance said to have originated when the Islamic prophet Mohammed migrated to Medina.
  • Kuxa Kanema is a documentary about the Mozambique government’s first attempts to create a national cinema.
  • a large portion of the vocabulary of the coastal Mozambiquean language Ekoti derives from a past variety of Swahili.
  • in December 2008, Anibal dos Santos, convicted murderer of Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso, has escaped maximum security jail for a third time.
  • Tofo in southern Mozambique draws foreign tourists to its beaches and population of whale sharks.
  • Ricardo Rangel co-founded Mozambique's first full color magazine Tempo, as a voice of opposition to Portuguese colonial rule.
  • Cyclone Jokwe killed 16 people in Mozambique and left at least 55,000 homeless.
  • Filipe Nhussi, the current defence minister of Mozambique, was president of the top-division football club Clube Ferroviário de Nampula.
  • Lothar Neethling of the South African Police confiscated and denied crash investigators access to the aircraft flight recorders from the wreckage of the air disaster which killed President Samora Machel of Mozambique in 1986.
  • Paulo Zucula headed the National Disasters Management Institute before he replaced Antonio Munguambe as Mozambique's Minister of Transport and Communication in March 2008.
  • Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso was murdered while investigating the privatization of the country's largest bank.