Overview

Mozambique covers 801,590 km², with 2.2% water coverage. Its 35 million people belong to 100 ethnic groups practicing state secularism, Christianity, Islam, and traditional African religions, across open woodland, wooded savanna, beaches, coastal forest, mangroves, savanna, grassland, highland forest, lakes, and marshland, with 4 rivers, 2 international airports, 5 ports, a railway, and a passable road network, plus 5 hydroelectric plants. 19 cities range from 100,000 to 886,000, and one reaches 3,200,000. Mozambique has an estimated total hydroelectric potential of over 15,000 MW across roughly a hundred identified sites.