Vila de Boane, Mozambique

Boane sits on the left bank of the Umbeluzi River in Maputo Province, within the capital's wider metropolitan area. Raised to town status in 1987 and constituted as a municipality in 2013 under Mozambique's decentralisation reforms, it is served by a station on the Goba railway and anchored economically by the Beleluane industrial park alongside a strong agricultural hinterland. Its position between the Umbeluzi valley and greater Maputo makes it both a food-producing district and a fast-growing peri-urban centre, where the municipality works with national government on localising the Sustainable Development Goals and promoting conservation agriculture.