Mozambique document photos online

Mozambique runs one of the most lopsided passport stories on Earth. Its own travel document is modest, ranking around 74th on the Henley Passport Index with roughly 59 destinations open to its citizens. Yet on the flip side of the same data, Mozambique tied for first place worldwide on the 2025 Henley Openness Index, posting a perfect score of 198 out of 198: it waves in citizens of every single other nation measured, visa-free. So while a Mozambican passport unlocks few doors abroad, Mozambique itself keeps every door wide open to the world.

• Passport power The Mozambican passport ranks about 74th on the Henley Passport Index, granting visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to roughly 59 destinations.
• Open borders Mozambique tied for first globally on the 2025 Henley Openness Index with a flawless 198/198 score, admitting citizens of every other nation visa-free.
• Flag Mozambique's flag is the only national flag on the planet that depicts a modern firearm: an AK-47 with a fixed bayonet, crossed with a hoe over an open book.
• A name The whole country is named after a person, the island ruler and Arab-Swahili merchant Mussa Bin Bique, whose name Portuguese sailors reshaped into 'Mocambique'.
• Currency name The metical takes its name from the Arabic 'mithqal', an ancient unit of gold weight, and is divided into 100 centavos.
• Money reset After Romania revalued its leu in 2005, the old metical briefly became the world's least-valued currency unit at about 24,500 to the US dollar, prompting a 2006 redenomination that struck three zeros off every note.
• Old capital For nearly 400 years the colonial capital was tiny Ilha de Mocambique, a coral island barely 3 km long and under 500 m wide, now a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1991.
• Independence Mozambique only became independent from Portugal on 25 June 1975, after roughly four and a half centuries of Portuguese presence on its coast.
• Language It is one of just a handful of Lusophone African states where Portuguese is the sole official language, even though it is a mother tongue for only a minority of citizens.