Main article: Geography of Mozambique The country is located on Eastern Africa, on the continent's largest coastal plain (half the territory is below 230 m above sea level). The mountain range known as Inyanga is located to the west, where its peak reaches 2500 m. The major elevations are near the borders with Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. The coasts are very irregular, and covered by vast swamps.
By the end of the 19th century, the portuguese found rebellion in many villages against slavery and explotation. The most important of these risings was led by Gugunhama, fought by Portuguese Mouzhino de Albuquerque. He suppressed the revolution and arrest its leader by 1895. Mozambique gained independence in 1975, when Samora Michel procalimed the birth of the Popular Republic of Mozambique. Main article: Politics of Mozambique
This Portuguese possession, bounded E. by the Indian Ocean, N. by German EastAfrica, W. by the Nyasaland Protectorate, Rhodesia and the Transvaal, S. by Tongaland (Natal), has an area of 293,500 sq.
- PortugueseEastAfrica is sparsely inhabited, the estimated population (1909) being 3,120,000; 90% of the inhabitants belong to various Bantu tribes, from whose ranks most of the natives employed in the Transvaal gold mines are recruited.
In 1752 the government of the East African possessions was again separated from that of Goa, and twenty years later Francisco Jose Maria de Lacerda e Almeida, a man of high attainments, made governor of the province at his own request, endeavoured to reform the administration.
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