Pemba, Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique
🇲🇿 Pemba is a port city and district in Mozambique. It is the capital of the province of Cabo Delgado and lies on a peninsula in Pemba Bay. The town was founded by the Niassa Company in 1904 as Porto Amélia, after the Queen of Portugal, at the peninsula's north-western tip and has grown around a port. The city is renowned for its Portuguese colonial architecture. It was renamed Pemba at the end of Portuguese rule, in 1975. The city's inhabitants are primarily Swahili, Makondes, Macuas and Mwanis. Local languages that are spoken are Kimwani and Macua, although Portuguese is widespread.
Pemba is also renowned as being a prime destination for water sport and diving enthusiasts as a coral reef lies close to the shore. It has increasingly become a tourist destination, particularly for upper-middle-class Mozambicans and South Africans. There are now 5 flights a week from Johannesburg to Pemba, several hotels, restaurants, and other forms of entertainment. In the centre of Pemba, there is an authentic local market or souk, where arts and crafts, as well as traditional silverware can be bought. Pemba is the closest major city and airport for those who wish to visit the Quirimbas Islands and Quirimbas National Park.
1Port Pemba is a potential site for a deepwater port.
1Pemba Airport Pemba Airport (IATA: POL, ICAO: FQPB) is a small international airport in Pemba, Mozambique.
1Maputo Time
Pemba has a population of over 201,800 people. Pemba also forms the centre of the wider Cabo Delgado Province which has a population of over 2,320,261 people.
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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Pemba has links with:
🇵🇹 Aveiro, Portugal 🇮🇹 Reggio Emilia, Italy🇧🇷 Lauro de Freitas -12.893
🇧🇷 Simões Filho -12.785
🇧🇷 Salvador de Bahia -12.967
🇧🇷 Santo Antônio de Jesus -12.97
🇧🇷 Salvador da Bahia -12.971
🇧🇷 Lucas do Rio Verde -13.067
🇷🇺 Arkhangelsk 40.515
🇷🇺 Gus-Khrustalny 40.66
🇸🇾 Al Ḩasakah 40.733
🇸🇾 Al-Hasakah 40.733
Locations Near: Pemba 40.4871,-12.9607
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🇲🇿 Nampula City 39.264,-15.117 d: 273.7
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🇰🇲 Moroni 43.264,-11.674 d: 333.9
🇲🇿 Angoche 39.906,-16.228 d: 368.7
🇰🇲 Mutsamudu 44.383,-12.167 d: 432
🇾🇹 Mamoudzou 45.232,-12.781 d: 514.7
🇲🇿 Mocuba 36.991,-16.84 d: 572
Antipodal to: Pemba -139.513,12.961
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