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English Dictionary: Mozambique by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Mozambique
n
  1. a republic on the southeastern coast of Africa on the Mozambique Channel; became independent from Portugal in 1975
    Synonym(s): Mozambique, Republic of Mozambique, Mocambique
From The CIA World Factbook (1995) [world95]:
   Mozambique
  
   Mozambique:Geography
  
   Location: Southern Africa, bordering the Mozambique Channel, between
   South Africa and Tanzania
  
   Map references: Africa
  
   Area:
   total area: 801,590 sq km
   land area: 784,090 sq km
   comparative area: slightly less than twice the size of California
  
   Land boundaries: total 4,571 km, Malawi 1,569 km, South Africa 491 km,
   Swaziland 105 km, Tanzania 756 km, Zambia 419 km, Zimbabwe 1,231 km
  
   Coastline: 2,470 km
  
   Maritime claims:
   exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
   territorial sea: 12 nm
  
   International disputes: none
  
   Climate: tropical to subtropical
  
   Terrain: mostly coastal lowlands, uplands in center, high plateaus in
   northwest, mountains in west
  
   Natural resources: coal, titanium
  
   Land use:
   arable land: 4%
   permanent crops: 0%
   meadows and pastures: 56%
   forest and woodland: 20%
   other: 20%
  
   Irrigated land: 1,150 sq km (1989 est.)
  
   Environment:
   current issues: civil strife and recurrent drought in the hinterlands
   have resulted in increased migration to urban and coastal areas with
   adverse environmental consequences; desertification; pollution of
   surface and coastal waters
   natural hazards: severe droughts and floods occur in central and
   southern provinces; devastating cyclones
   international agreements: party to - Endangered Species, Ozone Layer
   Protection; signed, but not ratified - Biodiversity, Climate Change,
   Law of the Sea
  
   Mozambique:People
  
   Population: 18,115,250 (July 1995 est.)
  
   Age structure:
   0-14 years: 45% (female 4,069,117; male 4,078,429)
   15-64 years: 53% (female 4,882,292; male 4,630,193)
   65 years and over: 2% (female 260,057; male 195,162) (July 1995 est.)
  
   Population growth rate: 2.87% (1995 est.)
  
   Birth rate: 44.6 births/1,000 population (1995 est.)
  
   Death rate: 15.94 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.)
  
   Net migration rate: NA migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.)
   note: by the end of 1994, an estimated 1.6 million Mozambican
   refugees, who fled to Malawi, Zimbabwa, and South Africa in earlier
   years from the civil war, had returned; an estimated 100,000 refugees
   remain to be repatriated from those countries
  
   Infant mortality rate: 126 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.)
  
   Life expectancy at birth:
   total population: 48.95 years
   male: 47.04 years
   female: 50.92 years (1995 est.)
  
   Total fertility rate: 6.19 children born/woman (1995 est.)
  
   Nationality:
   noun: Mozambican(s)
   adjective: Mozambican
  
   Ethnic divisions: indigenous tribal groups, Europeans about 10,000,
   Euro-Africans 35,000, Indians 15,000
  
   Religions: indigenous beliefs 60%, Christian 30%, Muslim 10%
  
   Languages: Portuguese (official), indigenous dialects
  
   Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)
   total population: 33%
   male: 45%
   female: 21%
  
   Labor force: NA
   by occupation: 90% engaged in agriculture
  
   Mozambique:Government
  
   Names:
   conventional long form: Republic of Mozambique
   conventional short form: Mozambique
   local long form: Republica Popular de Mocambique
   local short form: Mocambique
  
   Digraph: MZ
  
   Type: republic
  
   Capital: Maputo
  
   Administrative divisions: 10 provinces (provincias, singular -
   provincia); Cabo Delgado, Gaza, Inhambane, Manica, Maputo, Nampula,
   Niassa, Sofala, Tete, Zambezia
  
   Independence: 25 June 1975 (from Portugal)
  
   National holiday: Independence Day, 25 June (1975)
  
   Constitution: 30 November 1990
  
   Legal system: based on Portuguese civil law system and customary law
  
   Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal
  
   Executive branch:
   chief of state: President Joaquim Alberto CHISSANO (since 6 November
   1986)
   head of government: Prime Minister Pascoal MOCUMBI (since December
   1994)
   cabinet: Cabinet
  
   Legislative branch: unicameral
   Assembly of the Republic (Assembleia da Republica): draft electoral
   law provides for periodic, direct presidential and Assembly elections
   note: as called for in the 1992 peace accords, presidential and
   legislative elections took place during 27-29 October 1994; fourteen
   parties, including the Mozambique National Resistance (RENAMO)
   participated; Joaquim Alberto CHISSANO was elected president and his
   FRELIMO party gathered a slim majority in the 250 seat legislature
  
   Judicial branch: Supreme Court
  
   Political parties and leaders: Front for the Liberation of Mozambique
   (FRELIMO), Joaquim Alberto CHISSANO, chairman; the ruling party since
   independence, FRELIMO was the only legal party before 30 November 1990
   when the new Constitution went into effect establishing a multiparty
   system
  
   Member of: ACP, AfDB, CCC, ECA, FAO, FLS, G-77, GATT, IBRD, ICAO,
   ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, INMARSAT, INTELSAT,
   INTERPOL, IOC, IOM (observer), ITU, NAM, OAU, OIC, SADC, UN, UNCTAD,
   UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WMO
  
   Diplomatic representation in US:
   chief of mission: Ambassador Hipolito Pereira Zozimo PATRICIO
   chancery: Suite 570, 1990 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20036
   telephone: [1] (202) 293-7146
   FAX: [1] (202) 835-0245
  
   US diplomatic representation:
   chief of mission: Ambassador Dennis Coleman JETT
   embassy: Avenida Kenneth Kuanda, 193 Maputo
   mailing address: P. O. Box 783, Maputo
   telephone: [258] (1) 492797
   FAX: [258] (1) 490114
  
   Flag: three equal horizontal bands of green (top), black, and yellow
   with a red isosceles triangle based on the hoist side; the black band
   is edged in white; centered in the triangle is a yellow five-pointed
   star bearing a crossed rifle and hoe in black superimposed on an open
   white book
  
   Economy
  
   Overview: One of Africa's poorest countries, Mozambique has failed to
   exploit the economic potential of its sizable agricultural,
   hydropower, and transportation resources. Indeed, national output,
   consumption, and investment declined throughout the first half of the
   1980s because of internal disorders, lack of government administrative
   control, and a growing foreign debt. A sharp increase in foreign aid,
   attracted by an economic reform policy, resulted in successive years
   of economic growth in the late 1980s, but aid has declined steadily
   since 1989. Agricultural output is at only 75% of its 1981 level, and
   grain has to be imported. Industry operates at only 20%-40% of
   capacity. The economy depends heavily on foreign assistance to keep
   afloat. Peace accords signed in October 1992 improved chances of
   foreign investment, aided IMF-supported economic reforms, and
   supported continued economic recovery. Elections held in 1994 diverted
   government attention from the economy, resulting in slippage and
   delays in the economic reform program. Nonetheless, growth in 1994 was
   solid and can continue into the late 1990s given continued foreign
   help in meeting debt obligations.
  
   National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $10.6 billion (1994
   est.)
  
   National product real growth rate: 5.8% (1994 est.)
  
   National product per capita: $610 (1994 est.)
  
   Inflation rate (consumer prices): 50% (1994 est.)
  
   Unemployment rate: 50% (1989 est.)
  
   Budget:
   revenues: $252 million
   expenditures: $607 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
   (1992 est.)
  
   Exports: $150 million (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
   commodities: shrimp 40%, cashews, cotton, sugar, copra, citrus
   partners: Spain, South Africa, US, Portugal, Japan
  
   Imports: $1.14 billion (c.i.f., 1994 est.)
   commodities: food, clothing, farm equipment, petroleum
   partners: South Africa, UK, France, Japan, Portugal
  
   External debt: $5 billion (1992 est.)
  
   Industrial production: growth rate 5% (1989 est.)
  
   Electricity:
   capacity: 2,360,000 kW
   production: 1.7 billion kWh
   consumption per capita: 58 kWh (1993)
  
   Industries: food, beverages, chemicals (fertilizer, soap, paints),
   petroleum products, textiles, nonmetallic mineral products (cement,
   glass, asbestos), tobacco
  
   Agriculture: accounts for 50% of GDP and about 90% of exports; cash
   crops - cotton, cashew nuts, sugarcane, tea, shrimp; other crops -
   cassava, corn, rice, tropical fruits; not self-sufficient in food
  
   Economic aid:
   recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $350 million;
   Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
   (1970-89), $4.4 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $37 million;
   Communist countries (1970-89), $890 million
  
   Currency: 1 metical (Mt) = 100 centavos
  
   Exchange rates: meticais (Mt) per US$1 - 5,220.63 (1st quarter 1994),
   3,874.24 (1993), 2,550.40 (1992), 1,763.99 (1991), 1,053.09 (1990)
  
   Fiscal year: calendar year
  
   Mozambique:Transportation
  
   Railroads:
   total: 3,288 km
   narrow gauge: 3,140 km 1.067-m gauge; 148 km 0.762-m gauge
  
   Highways:
   total: 26,498 km
   paved: 4,593 km
   unpaved: gravel, crushed stone, stabilized earth 829 km; unimproved
   earth 21,076 km
  
   Inland waterways: about 3,750 km of navigable routes
  
   Pipelines: crude oil (not operating) 306 km; petroleum products 289 km
  
   Ports: Beira, Inhambane, Maputo, Nacala, Pemba
  
   Merchant marine:
   total: 3 cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 4,533 GRT/8,024 DWT
  
   Airports:
   total: 192
   with paved runways over 3,047 m: 1
   with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 4
   with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 11
   with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 5
   with paved runways under 914 m: 112
   with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 15
   with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 44
  
   Note:
   note: highway traffic impeded by land mines not removed at end of
   civil war
  
   Mozambique:Communications
  
   Telephone system: NA telephone density; fair system of troposcatter,
   open-wire lines, and radio relay
   local: NA
   intercity: microwave radio relay and tropospheric scatter
   international: 5 INTELSAT (2 Atlantic Ocean and 3 Indian Ocean) earth
   stations
  
   Radio:
   broadcast stations: AM 29, FM 4, shortwave 0
   radios: NA
  
   Television:
   broadcast stations: 1
   televisions: NA
  
   Mozambique:Defense Forces
  
   Branches: Army, Naval Command, Air and Air Defense Forces, Militia;
   note - by late 1994, the army and former RENAMO rebels had
   demobilized; under UN supervision and training, recruits from both the
   army and rebel forces joined an integrated force that is still forming
  
   Manpower availability: males age 15-49 4,061,109; males fit for
   military service 2,331,793 (1995 est.)
  
   Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $110 million, 7.3% of
   GDP (1993)
  
  
  
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