Maputo in five emoji

What each emoji refers to

🦐

Prawns grilled with piri-piri are the thing to eat, and the fish market lets you buy them and have them cooked next door.

🚉

The railway station is a domed 1910 building often credited to Gustave Eiffel, though the attribution does not survive checking.

🌊

The bay is shallow and warm, and the beaches proper start north of the city.

🎷

Marrabenta came out of the suburbs in the 1950s, played on guitars strung with fishing line.

🥜

Cashews were the great export crop before the war, and the processing industry is still being rebuilt.

Maputo at a glance

Country

Mozambique

Coordinates

25.97° S, 32.57° E

First played

14 June 2026

Nearest cities in the game

Distances are great-circle, the same measure the game reports after a wrong guess. The arrow is the direction you would need to travel from Maputo.