Mozambique Genealogy

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Guide to Mozambique ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

Getting Started With Mozambican Research
The Mozambique page is here to help you get started doing family history research in Mozambique. It is designed to help you find, obtain, and analzye records pertaining to Mozambique. This page is a work in progess, and your help and contributions are appreciated!

Jurisdictions
Mozambique is divided into ten provinces (portuguese: provincias) and one capital city, Maputo, with provincial status.The provinces are divided into 129 districts (distritos), which are further divided into 405 Administrative Posts (Postos Administrativos). These are divided into Localities (Localidades), which are the lowest geographical level of the central state administration.



The following are the Provinces of Mozambique with the capital city of each province listed as well:

     

Province                      Capital of Province


 * 1) Cabo Delegado                   Pemba
 * 2) Gaza                                   Xai-Xai
 * 3) Inhambane                          Inhambane
 * 4) Manica                                Chimoio
 * 5) Maputo (Capital)                       -
 * 6) Maputo                               Matola
 * 7) Nampula                             Nampula
 * 8) Niassa                                Lichinga
 * 9) Sofala                                 Beira
 * 10) Tete                                    Tete
 * 11) Zambezia                            Quelimane

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Mozambique is located on the southeast coast of Africa. It is bound by Swaziland to the south, South Africa to the southwest, Zimbabwe to the west, Zambia and Malawi to the northwest, Tanzania to the north and the Indian Ocean to the east. The country is divided into two topographical regions by the Zambezi River. Read more...