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MAPUTO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Maputo mean?
• MAPUTO (noun)
The noun MAPUTO has 1 sense:
1. the capital and largest city of Mozambique
Familiarity information: MAPUTO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The capital and largest city of Mozambique
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
capital of Mozambique; Maputo
Instance hypernyms:
national capital (the capital city of a nation)
Holonyms ("Maputo" is a part of...):
Mocambique; Mozambique; Republic of Mozambique (a republic on the southeastern coast of Africa on the Mozambique Channel; became independent from Portugal in 1975)
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