Maputo

Definition: Maputo

Maputo

Noun

1. The capital and largest city of Mozambique.

Domain	Definitions
Geography	Capital of Mozambique. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Maputo (population 966,837 (1997)), is the capital of Mozambique. A port on the Indian Ocean, its economy is contered around a modern harbor. Coal, cotton, sugar, chrome, sisal, copra and hardwood are the chief exports. The city manufactures cement, pottery, furniture, shoes, and rubber. There is also a large aluminum smelting plant.

Founded in the late 18th century, the city was named Lourenço Marques for the Portuguese trader who first explored the area in 1544. In 1895, construction of a railroad to Pretoria, South Africa caused the city's population to grow. In 1907, Lourenço Marques became the capital of Mozambique. After independence, the city's name was changed to Maputo.

The University of Mozambique is in the city, which also has a museum of Mozambique history, a military museum, and the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of Fatima.

Synonym: Maputo

Synonym: capital of Mozambique (n). (additional references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Maputo Mulher (1984)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		U.S. group Enron is promoting this project and the initial gas flows will be used for the Maputo iron and steel project. (references)
		The MOZAL Sonata and the Motraco transmission anchor the Maputo development corridor, and MOZAL is expected to generate export earnings of $400 million a year for Mozambique and the Southern Africa region. (references)
		The venture was formed for the construction, ownership and operation of two 400 kV transmission lines, from Eskom's Arnot and Camden Power Stations in South Africa to the new Maputo substations in Mozambique, to supply of the $1,34 billion Mozambique Aluminium (MOZAL) smelter. (references)
Children	Mozambique	NGO's and the Government took some steps to protect and reintegrate into families or other supervised conditions an estimated 3,000 street children in the Maputo metropolitan area. (references)
	Mozambique	The mortality rate for infants was 135 per 1,000, and for children under the age of 5 it was 201 per 1,000. The Maputo City Women and Social Action Coordination Office continued its program of rescuing abandoned orphans and assisting single mothers who head families of three or more persons. (references)
Civil Liberties	Mozambique	Johnson subsequently visited Maputo in July and spoke before a large rally. (references)
Economic History	Mozambique	Administrative subdivisions: 10 provinces and the capital district of Maputo. (references)
	Swaziland	The older east-west link, called the Goba line, makes it possible to export bulk goods from Swaziland through the Port of Maputo in Mozambique. (references)
	South Africa	In large-scale infrastructure projects, like the Maputo Corridor, BEE objectives were evident in requirements mandating the use of small and medium subcontractors. (references)
Human Rights	Mozambique	There are an estimated 200 licensed attorneys in the country; the vast majority work in Maputo. (references)
	Mozambique	In July police officers in Maputo detained numerous persons as part of an operation to reduce street crime. (references)
	Mozambique	However, the Maputo Machava Maximum Security Prison, with a capacity of 600, held considerably less than that. (references)
Minorities	Mozambique	After several decades of unsuccessful attempts to gain a building permit, the Islamic community began constructing the Grand Mosque in downtown Maputo during the year. (references)
Women	Mozambique	In 2000 police commanders from the Maputo area held a seminar on domestic violence, where they were instructed to handle such cases as criminal matters. (references)
Worker Rights	Mozambique	There was an EPZ in Maputo and one in Beira. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Maputo" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Maputo" is used about 39 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	39	55,036

1. Maputo, Mozambique
Location: 25.58 South, 32.35 East
Population (2000 estimate): 1332150
Time Zone: 2 GMT
Country: Mozambique

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Modern Translations: Maputo

Language		Translations for "Maputo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		Maputo. (various references)

Dutch		Maputo. (various references)

Finnish		Maputo. (various references)

French		Maputo. (various references)

German		Maputo. (various references)

Greek		Μαπούτο. (various references)

Italian		Maputo. (various references)

Pig Latin		aputomay

Portuguese		Maputo. (various references)

Spanish		Maputo. (various references)

Swedish		Maputo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Maputo

Misspellings
	"Maputo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ampato, Mabote, Makut, makuti, Maperton, Mapfumo, Mapu, Maquio, Masutti, Maupeou, Mupata, Papudo. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Maputo

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-m-o-p-t-u"
	-2 letters: atom, atop, auto, maut, moat, pout, puma, tamp, tump.
	-3 letters: amp, amu, apt, map, mat, moa, mop, mot, mut, oat, opt, out, pam, pat, pom, pot, put, tam, tao, tap, tau, tom, top, tup, ump, upo, uta.
	-4 letters: am, at, ma, mo, mu, om, op, pa, ta, to, um, up, ut.
	Words containing the letters "a-m-o-p-t-u"
	+1 letter: pantoum, pomatum.
	+2 letters: pantoums, pomatums.
	+3 letters: mousetrap, mouthpart, paramount, potassium, pulmonate.
	+4 letters: amputation, apothecium, assumption, computable, deutoplasm, imputation, lipomatous, mousetraps, mouthparts, multipolar, paramounts, petrolatum, photomural, postpartum, potassiums, poultryman, promulgate, protohuman, pulmonates, subcompact, suboptimal, utopianism.
	+5 letters: amputations, assumptions, champertous, compurgator, computation, deutoplasms, importunate, imputations, lepromatous, manipulator, mountaintop, multiparous, paramountcy, paramountly, pentamerous, permutation, petrolatums, photomurals, portmanteau, proctodaeum, promulgated, promulgates, promulgator, prothallium, protohumans, subcompacts, sympetalous, unimportant, utopianisms.
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