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Place details
- Locality
- Maxixe
- Region
- Inhambane
- Country
- Moçambique
- Population
- 126,408
- Timezone
- Africa/Maputo
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Mozambique
- Province
- Inhambane
- Total
- 123,868
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Country
- Mozambique
- Located in
- Inhambane Province
- Population
- 155521
- Image
- Inhambane-dhow.JPG
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- Commons category
- Maxixe, Mozambique
- P12749
- Elsa Triolet
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Encyclopedic overview
Maxixe ( Portuguese pronunciation: [maˈʃiʃi]) is the largest city and economic capital of the province of Inhambane, Mozambique. It is situated on the Indian Ocean at 23°52′S 35°23′E just south of the Tropic of Capricorn, in a bay opposite historic Inhambane City which can be reached by local ferries. Although Maxixe is the province's principal city, Inhambane City is the seat of the provincial government.
Dhow ferrying passengers from Inhambane to Maxixe in 2006.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maxixe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.