MOZAMBIQUE

MOZAMBIQUE / MOÇAMBIQUE.

Local Motives.
View of Lourenço Marques.
Sixth stamp in a set of 20, issued in 1948.
Face value: 50 cents of Mozambican escudo.
Design: Alberto Souza.
Engraving: Arnaldo Fragoso.
Printing: Typography.
Print: 4,000,000 copies.
Size: 30 x 22.5 cm.

Catalogs
- Afinsa-Mundifil No. 329.
- Michel No. 358.
- Scott No. 310.
- StampWorld No. 371.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 413.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 365.

Lourenço Marques (name of the Portuguese explorer who explored the bay in 1544) is the name that the capital of Mozambique had during the Portuguese colonization; On March 13, 1976, after the country's independence, the name was changed to Maputo. The city was founded at the end of the 18th century. In 1907 it became the capital of Portuguese East Africa, which would later become Mozambique. According to the 2017 census, the urban population was 1,080,277 inhabitants, and that of the metropolitan area, 1,766,823. The city is located on the coast of the Indian Ocean. In the image of the stamp you can see the Praça 7 de Março (March 7 Square), current Praça do 25 de Junho (June 25 Square).