Mozambique, formally the Republic of Mozambique, is a nation situated in Southeast Africa circumscribed by the Indian Ocean toward the east, Tanzania toward the north, Malawi and Zambia toward the northwest, Zimbabwe toward the west, and Eswatini (Swaziland) and South Africa toward the southwest. The sovereign state is isolated from the Comoros, Mayotte and Madagascar by the Mozambique Channel toward the east. The capital of Mozambique is Maputo while Matola is the biggest city, being a suburb of Maputo. Between the first and fifth hundreds of years AD, Bantu-talking people groups moved to exhibit day Mozambique from more distant north and west. Northern Mozambique exists in the storm exchange winds of the Indian Ocean. Between the seventh and eleventh hundreds of years, a progression of Swahili port towns created here, which added to the improvement of an unmistakable Swahili culture and language. In the late medieval period, these towns were frequented by merchants from Somalia, Ethiopia, Egypt, Arabia, Persia, and India. The voyage of Vasco da Gama in 1498 denoted the landing of the Portuguese, who started a continuous procedure of colonization and settlement in 1505. After more than four centuries of Portuguese principle, Mozambique picked up freedom in 1975, turning into the People's Republic of Mozambique presently. After just two years of autonomy, the nation plummeted into an extreme and extended common war enduring from 1977 to 1992. In 1994, Mozambique held its first multiparty decisions, and has since remained a moderately steady presidential republic. Mozambique is blessed with rich and broad regular assets. The nation's economy depends to a great extent on agribusiness, however industry is developing, for the most part nourishment and drinks, substance assembling and aluminum and oil generation.

Maputo, formally named Lourenço Marques until 1976, is the capital and most crowded city of Mozambique. Situated close to the southern end of the nation, it is situated inside 120 km of the Swaziland and South Africa outskirts. The city has a populace of 1,101,170 (as of 2017[2]) appropriated over a land territory of 347 km2 (134 sq mi). The Maputo metropolitan zone incorporates the neighboring city of Matola, and has an all out populace of 2,717,437. Maputo is a port city, with an economy based on trade. It is additionally noted for its lively social scene and particular, diverse engineering. Maputo is arranged on an expansive characteristic inlet on the Indian Ocean, close where the waterways Tembe, Mbuluzi, Matola and Infulene unite. The city comprises of seven managerial divisions, which are each subdivided into quarters or bairros. The city is encompassed by Maputo Province, however is directed as an independent, separate area since 1998. Maputo City is the topographically littlest and most thickly populated region in Mozambique.

African elephants will be elephants of the sort Loxodonta. The variety comprises of two surviving species: the African hedge elephant, L. africana, and the littler African woods elephant, L. cyclotis. Loxodonta is one of two existing genera of the family Elephantidae. One types of African elephant, the shrub elephant, is the biggest living earthly creature, while the woodland elephant is the third-biggest. Their pudgy bodies lay on stocky legs, and they have inward backs. Their extensive ears empower heat misfortune. The upper lip and nose structure a trunk. The storage compartment goes about as a fifth appendage, a sound intensifier, and a significant strategy for contact. African elephants' trunks end in two contradicting lips, though the Asian elephant trunk finishes in a solitary lip. In L. africana, guys stand 3.2– 4.0 m (10.5– 13.1 ft) tall at the shoulder and weigh 4,700– 6,048 kg (10,362– 13,334 lb), while females stand 2.2– 2.6 m (7.2– 8.5 ft) tall and weigh 2,160– 3,232 kg (4,762– 7,125 lb); African elephants are found broadly in Sub-Saharan Africa, in thick backwoods, mopane and miombo forests, Sahelian clean, or deserts.