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Cabinda

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Cabinda

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city in Cabinda Province, Angola

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Cabinda is a city and port in Angola, serving as the capital of Cabinda Province. Established in 1883, it is located in the UTC+01:00 time zone and has Portuguese as its official language. The municipality covers an area of 1,823,000,000 square units and has a population of 739,182.

The city is situated at an elevation of 24 meters above sea level. It is twinned with Campinas.

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Place details

Locality
Cabinda
Region
Cabinda
Country
Angola
Population
550,000
Timezone
Africa/Luanda

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84US AQIModerate
PM2.5
23.1 µg/m³
PM10
25.4 µg/m³
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Wikidata facts

Instance of
big city
Official name
Cabinda
Country
Angola
Located in
Cabinda Province
Official language
Portuguese
Population
699053
Area
7270
Elevation
24
Time zone
UTC+01:00
Capital of
Cabinda Province
Image
Cabinda VOA.png
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topic's main category
Category:Cabinda (city)
Commons category
Cabinda (city)
native label
Cabinda
inception
1883-00-00
category of associated people
Category:People from Cabinda (city)
category for people born here
Category:People from Cabinda (city)
twinned administrative body
Campinas
described by source
New International Encyclopedia
P12749
Curacautín
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Travel guide

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Cabinda used to be known as Portuguese Congo. The Portuguese did at times attempt to control the territory between Cabinda and the rest of their holdings in southwest Africa, which would have made things a lot more convenient for the Angolans today. But the territorial discontinuity of what would become Angola was set by the 1884 Berlin Conference, which established that Leopold of Belgium's personal property of the "Congo Free State" would extend along the Congo River to the Atlantic.

The Front for the Liberation of the Exclave of Cabinda (FLEC) has waged a secessionist struggle against the Angolan government since independence. The province's vast oil reserves, first explored by the Portuguese in the 1950s, guarantee that the Angolan government will use its powerful army to maintain tight control. Expect to see a very large military and police presence here.

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Encyclopedic overview

Cabinda, also known as Chioua, is a city and a municipality in the Cabinda Province, an exclave of Angola. It is the administrative capital of Cabinda. Angolan sovereignty over Cabinda is disputed by the secessionist Republic of Cabinda. The city of Cabinda had a population of 550,000 and the municipality a population of 624,646, at the 2014 Census. The residents of the city are known as Cabindas or Fiotes. Cabinda, due to its proximity to rich oil reserves, serves as one of Angola's main oil ports. With a territorial area of 1,823 km², it is the most populous municipality in the province and the ninth most populous in the country.

There are considerable offshore oil reserves nearby.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cabinda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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