Sofala, a Portuguese maritime district of South-East Africa, stretching from the Zambesi S. to Delagoa Bay, and forming the S. portion of the colony of Mozambique. Sofala (1), chief port on a bay of the same name, is a place of little importance.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Sodom and Gomorrah * Sofia