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• “Lourenço Marques”. Elementos para um diccionario chorographico da provincia de Mozambique (bằng tiếng Bồ Đào Nha). Lisboa: Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa. 1889. 
• “Water-Gate of the Transvaal”. Chambers' Journal (Luân Đôn). 1895. 

Thế kỷ 20

• A. Samler Brown; G. Gordon Brown biên tập (1906), “Lourenço Marques”, Guide to South Africa (ấn bản 14), Luân Đôn: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co. 
• “Lorenzo Marquez”. Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (bằng tiếng Đức) (ấn bản 14). Leipzig: Brockhaus. 1908. 
• “Lourenço Marques, Portuguese East Africa”. International Directory of Buyers and Sellers. Chicago: International Trade Developer Inc. 1922. 
• António Rita-Ferreira (1968). “Os Africanos de Lourenço Marques”. Memórias do Instituto de Investigação Científica de Moçambique (bằng tiếng Bồ Đào Nha) 9: 165–222. ISSN 0076-1184. Série C 
• Jeanne Penvenne (1979), Forced labor and the origin of an African working class: Lourenço Marques, 1870-1962, Brookline, Massachusetts: Boston University African Studies Center 
• Carlos Alberto Medeiros (de) (1980). “Maputo antes da independência, Geografia de uma cidade colonial”. Finisterra (pt) (bằng tiếng Bồ Đào Nha) (Centro de Estudos Geográficos da Universidade de Lisboa) 15 (30). ISSN 0430-5027. doi:10.18055/Finis2209. 
• E. Medeiros (1989). “L'evolution Demographique de la Ville de Lourenco Marques (1894-1975)”. Trong M. Cahen. Bourgs et Villes en Afrique Lusophone (bằng tiếng Pháp). 
• M. C. Mendes (1989). “Les repercussions de l'independence sur la ville de Maputo”. Trong M. Cahen. Bourgs et Villes en Afrique Lusophone (bằng tiếng Pháp). 
• Jeremy Grest (1995). “Urban Management, Local Government Reform and the Democratisation Process in Mozambique: Maputo City 1975-1990”. Journal of Southern African Studies 21 (1): 147–164. JSTOR 2637336. doi:10.1080/03057079508708438. 
• Jeanne Marie Penvenne (1995). African workers and colonial racism: Mozambican strategies and struggles in Lourenço Marques, 1877-1962. Luân Đôn: James Currey. ISBN 0435089528. 
• JoAnn McGregor (1998). “Violence and Social Change in a Border Economy: War in the Maputo Hinterland, 1984-1992”. Journal of Southern African Studies 24. 
• Paul Jenkins (1999), Maputo city: The historical roots of under-development and the consequences in urban form, Edinburgh College of Art/Heriot-Watt University, School of Planning and Housing, OCLC 42874930, Research paper n°71 

Thế kỷ 21

• Fredrik Söderbaum; Ian Taylor (2001). “Transmission Belt for Transnational Capital or Facilitator for Development? Problematising the Role of the State in the Maputo Development Corridor”. Journal of Modern African Studies 39. 
• Jeanne-Marie Penvenne (2002). “'A xikomo xa lomu, iku tira': Citadines africaines à Lourenço Marques (Mozambique), 1945-1975”. Le Mouvement social (bằng tiếng Pháp) (Paris) (204). doi:10.3917/lms.204.0081 – qua Cairn.info. 
• M.A. El-Khawas (2003). “Maputo, Mozambique”. Trong Dickson Eyoh and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza. Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794. 
• Kwame Anthony Appiah và Henry Louis Gates biên tập (2005). “Maputo”. Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (ấn bản 2). Oxford University Press. tr. 726+. ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9. 
• Kevin Shillington biên tập (2005). “Maputo”. Encyclopedia of African History. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-57958-245-6. 
• Illegitimacy of Democracy? Democratisation and Alienation in Maputo, Mozambique, Luân Đôn: Crisis States Research Centre, 2007 – qua International Relations and Security Network 
• Nationalism, Urban Poverty and Identity in Maputo, Mozambique, Luân Đôn: Crisis States Research Centre, 2010 – qua International Relations and Security Network 
• P. Jenkins (2011), Simon Bekker and Goran Therborn, biên tập, “Maputo and Luanda”, Capital Cities in Africa: Power and Powerlessness (Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa), ISBN 978-2-8697-8495-6 
• Paulo Tormenta Pinto & Ana Vaz Milheiro (2012), From Monumentality To Diversity – Maputo Between The Urban Plans Of Aguiar & Azevedo (1950—1970) – qua International Planning History Society 
• Carlos Nunes Silva biên tập (2015). Urban Planning in Lusophone African Countries. UK: Ashgate. ISBN 978-1472444882.  (Includes articles about Maputo)
• Vanessa de Pacheco Melo (2016). “Production of Urban Peripheries For and By Low-Income Populations at the Turn of the Millennium: Maputo, Luanda and Johannesburg”. Journal of Southern African Studies 42 (4). 
• Sandra Roque và đồng nghiệp (2016). “Subúrbios and Cityness: Exploring Imbrications and Urbanity in Maputo, Mozambique”. Journal of Southern African Studies 42 (4).