ATLAS · WORLD HERITAGE · MOZAMBIQUE
World Heritage Sites in Mozambique
Mozambique has 2 sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List — 1 cultural, 1 natural. Below: how they split by type, and the headline sites. From UNESCO’s official list, snapshot 2026-06-22.
By heritage type
Notable sites in Mozambique
A spread of the country’s heritage — the rarer mixed and natural sites first, then its earliest inscriptions.
This large and ecologically diverse transboundary property, located along the border of South Africa and Mozambique, includes a wide variety of ecosystems such as coral reefs, sandy beaches, coastal dunes, freshwater lakes, swamps, mangroves, seagrass beds, and savannahs. These environments are l…
Shared across: Mozambique · South Africa
The fortified city of Mozambique is located on this island, a former Portuguese trading-post on the route to India. Its remarkable architectural unity is due to the consistent use, since the 16th century, of the same building techniques, building materials (stone or macuti ) and decorative princi…