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Maputo (Mozambique)

Formerly: Lourenço Marques, national capital

Last modified: 2005-06-11 by jarig bakker
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[Maputo flag] by António "Kitabulu" Teixeira, 18 Oct 2002 See also:

Maputo flag

The current flag and emblem of the Maputo Municipality, they were GIFfed by António "Kitabulu" Teixeira, a local vexillologist, upon direct observation.
Mozambican municipalities are under reorganization and apparently there are already 32 more of these, with flags.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 21 Oct 2002

Maputo emblem

[Maputo emblem] by António "Kitabulu" Teixeira, 18 Oct 2002

First Lourenço Marques flag

[first Lourenço Marques flag] by Jorge Hurtado, 19 Oct 2002

Here are the old flags of Maputo, then Lourenço Marques, the first one, green, before 1962, and then (until 1975) in the classic portuguesse gyronny.
Jaume Ollé, 19 Oct 2002

Are you sure that the CoA is correct? On Ralf Hartemink's page the top quarter is gold/yellow, not red. The sails are red, not white. Moreover the motto on the banderol below the CoA is virtually illegi