1. Mozambique is the only country with all five vowels, A, E, I, O, U in its name.
2. If country names were allowed in Scrabble, Mozambique would score more than any other country whose name is a single word.
3. Portuguese is still the official language of Mozambique. It was under Portuguese rule for nearly 500 years from 1505.
4. The name of Mozambique comes from an Arab trader Mussa Ben Mbiki who gave his name to the island of Mozambique off the country’s coast.
5. About 45 per cent of the population of Mozambique are under the age of 15.
6. The average woman in Mozambique has five children in her lifetime, the first before she is 19.
7. Mozambique has won two Olympic medals both by Maria de Lurdes Mutola in the women’s 800 metres, a bronze in 1996 and a gold in 2000.
8. Mozambique has the only national flag featuring an AK-47 assault rifle in its design.
9. In 2005, Unesco proclaimed the music of the Chopi people of Mozambique “a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity”.
10. “Never marry a woman who has bigger feet than you,” (Mozambique proverb).