Maputo

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Revisions not set
Type Settlement & River
Usage English, Danish, Esperanto, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish
Scripts マプト(Japanese Katakana) 마푸토(Korean Hangul)
Pronounced Pron. mə-POO-to(English) ma-POO-to(Esperanto, Italian) mu-POO-too(Portuguese) MA-poo-to(Slovak)  [key·IPA]

Meaning & History

The city may have been named after Maputsu I of the Tembe clan, a subgroup of the Tsonga people found in Mozambique and South Africa, or after the Maputo River.

This is the name of a river and the capital city of Mozambique.
Added 9/3/2021 by VerdeIperbolico
Edited 12/22/2022 by Mike C