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| a city in W Mozambique, on the Zambezi River. 38,196. |
Tete
port city, west-central Mozambique. Tete is situated on the right bank of the Zambezi River near the rich coal mines of Moatize. Under Portuguese influence Tete had become a market centre for ivory and gold by the mid-17th century. Given a town charter in 1761, it became a city in 1959. It is connected to the Indian Ocean by railway to the port of Beira and by the Zambezi River.
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