Editing Portuguese Mozambique (section)

==Demographics==
[[File:Mozambique-ethnic groups and administrative divisions. 10-64. LOC 75690377.jpg|thumb|Administrative divisions and ethnic groups of Portuguese Mozambique, 1964]]
By 1970, the Portuguese Overseas Province of Mozambique had about 8,168,933 inhabitants. Nearly 300,000 were white [[ethnic Portuguese]]. There was a number of [[mulatto]]es, from both European and African ancestry, living across the territory. However, the vast majority of the population belonged to local tribal groups which included the [[Makua people|Makua]]–[[Lomwe people|Lomwe]], the [[Shona people|Shona]] and the [[Tsonga people|Tsonga]]. Other ethnic minorities included British, Greeks, Chinese and Indians. Most inhabitants were black indigenous Africans with a diversity of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, ranging from [[Shangaan]] and [[Makonde people|Makonde]] to [[Yao people|Yao]] or [[Shona people]]s. The Makua were the largest ethnic group in the north. The [[Sena people|Sena]] and [[Shona people|Shona]] (mostly [[Ndau people|Ndau]]) were prominent in the Zambezi valley, and the [[Shangaan|Shangaan (Tsonga)]] dominated in the south. In addition, several other minority groups lived a tribal lifestyle across the territory.

Mozambique had around 250,000 Europeans in 1974 that made up around 3% of the population. Mozambique was cosmopolitan as it had Indian, Chinese, Greek and Anglophone communities (over 25,000 Indians and 5,000 Chinese by the early 1970s). The capital of Portuguese Mozambique, Lourenço Marques ([[Maputo]]), had a population of 355,000 in 1970 with around 100,000 Europeans. [[Beira, Mozambique|Beira]] had around 115,000 inhabitants at the time with around 30,000 Europeans. Most of the other cities ranged from 10 to 15% in the number of Europeans, win contrast with [[Angola (Portugal)|Portuguese Angola]], where cities had European majorities ranging from 50% to 60%.