Key facts
- Ocean sea sources
- Indian Ocean
- Basin countries
- Mozambique
- Max length
- 24 km (15 mi)
- Max width
- 36 km (22 mi)
- Settlements
- Maputo
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- bay
- Country
- Mozambique
- Image
- Delagoa bay.jpg
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- Maputo Bay
- different from
- Maputo
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Encyclopedic overview
Maputo Bay (Portuguese: Baía de Maputo), formerly also known as Delagoa Bay from Baía da Lagoa in Portuguese, is an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast of Mozambique, between 25° 40' and 26° 20' S, with a length from north to south of over 90 km long and 32 km wide.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maputo Bay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.