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Inhambane

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thumb|Satellite view of Inhambane Bay, captured by the Copernicus Programme|Copernicus [[Sentinel-2 mission.]]

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Place details

Locality
Cidade de Inhambane
Region
Inhambane
Country
Moçambique
Population
95,388
Timezone
Africa/Maputo

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Key facts

Settlement.official_name
Inhambane
Settlement.other_name
Terra de Boa Gente
Settlement.settlement_type
City
Settlement.image_skyline
Estação do Caminho de Ferro Inhambane back side.jpg
Settlement.image_caption
Inhambane railway station
Settlement.pushpin_map
Mozambique
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
240
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Inhambane Province
Settlement.established_title
Founded
Settlement.established_date
11th century
Settlement.elevation_m
1
Settlement.population_total
79,724
Settlement.population_as_of
2017 census
Settlement.population_density_km2
auto
Settlement.timezone
+1
Settlement.postal_code
1307

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Wikidata facts

Country
Mozambique
Population
82119
Area
194.9
Elevation
1
Time zone
UTC+01:00
Image
Estação do Caminho de Ferro Inhambane back side.jpg
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twinned administrative body
Oeiras
Commons category
Inhambane
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Travel guide

Do

Watersports Canoeing and Dhow trips are a wonderful and relaxing activity for all to enjoy, and not necessarily reserved for athletes. Bazaruto National Sea Park Mocucune Peninsula Visit to chase a chicken for the grill and drink a local beer.

Buy

thumb|Central Market in Inhambane If you are looking for footwear for the beach, the central market has a wider range of flip-flops than the shoe shops in town.

Eat

You can buy fish and seafood from the local people next to the main road or on the beaches, but be careful when buying items that needs to be weighed with a scale; some of the local people trick tourists by jamming their scales so that the item (fish) weighs more than the actual weight. In the end, the tourist is tricked in paying more. The advice is to take your own scale when buying food items.

Sleep

Many people stay at one of the many resorts located on the beach. These are lovely and inexpensive by world standards; however, they are culturally isolating. 95% of the guests will be white visitors largely from South Africa and Europe.

Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)

~5 min read

Encyclopedic overview

9 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Recreation
  • Transport
  • International Relations
  • Railway
  • Climate
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

thumb|Satellite view of Inhambane Bay, captured by the Copernicus Programme|Copernicus [[Sentinel-2 mission.]]

Inhambane (also known as Terra de Boa Gente (Land of Good People)) is a city located in southern Mozambique, lying on Inhambane Bay, 470 km northeast of Maputo. It is the capital of the Inhambane Province and, according to the 2017 census, has a population of 79,724, growing from 54,157 in the 1997 census.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Inhambane” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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