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Kilamba-Kiaxi
Quilamba Quiaxi, also spelled as Kilamba Kiaxi, is an city and one of nine municipalities that make up the province of Luanda in Angola. In the Kimbundu language the name means ''Land (Kiaxi) of Kilamba''. According to the population projections of 2018, prepared by the National Institute of Statistics, it has a population of approximately 750 000 inhabitants and a territorial area of 64.1 km². Geography It is limited to the west with the urban district of Maianga, to the north with the urban district of Rangel and the municipality of Cazenga, to the east the municipality of Viana and to the south with the municipality of Talatona. It is only the commune, which is subdivided into the urban districts of Golfe , Golfe II, Palanca, Vila Estoril and Sapú. In 2011, due to administrative reform, it was classified as Luanda's urban district, but in 2016 it regained the status of municipality. See also * Quilamba Quilamba (or Kilamba) is an Angolan neighborhood that serve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luanda Province
Luanda is a province of Angola. It covers an area of 18,835 km2, and had a population of 6,945,386 at the Census of 16 May 2014. The latest official estimate (for 2019) is 8,247,688.Instituto Nacional de EstatÃstiica, República de Angola. The city of Luanda is the capital of the province and Angola. It serves as the country's primary port, cultural and urban centre and occupies 44.8 square miles. History The original prewar Luanda Province grew in size during the 20th century due to the urbanization of Angola. It was divided into the provinces of Luanda and Bengo in 1980. The new reform of 2011 moved the municipalities Icolo e Bengo and Quiçama from Bengo to Luanda Province, so as the province has 3 neighboring ones instead of being surrounded by Bengo. The administrative reform significantly increased the land area of Luanda Province. It formerly had an area of and a reported population of 6,542,942 in 2014, before accounting for reorganization Despite this, the city o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luanda
Luanda () is the capital and largest city in Angola. It is Angola's primary port, and its major industrial, cultural and urban centre. Located on Angola's northern Atlantic coast, Luanda is Angola's administrative centre, its chief seaport, and also the capital of the Luanda Province. Luanda and its metropolitan area is the most populous Portuguese-speaking capital city in the world and the most populous Lusophone city outside Brazil, with over 8.3 million inhabitants in 2020 (a third of Angola's population). Among the oldest colonial cities of Africa, it was founded in January 1576 as ''São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda'' by Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais. The city served as the centre of the slave trade to Brazil before its prohibition. At the start of the Angolan Civil War in 1975, most of the white Portuguese left as refugees, principally for Portugal. Luanda's population increased greatly from refugees fleeing the war, but its infrastructure was inadequate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimbundu
Kimbundu, a Bantu language which has sometimes been called Mbundu or 'North Mbundu' (see Umbundu), is the second-most-widely-spoken Bantu language in Angola. Its speakers are concentrated in the north-west of the country, notably in the Luanda, Bengo, Malanje and the Cuanza Norte provinces. It is spoken by the Ambundu. Phonology Consonants Allophones: ¸and ²are allophones of /p/ and /b/, respectively, before /a/ and /u/. The phoneme /l/ is phonetically a flap ¾ a voiced plosive or its palatalized version ʲwhen before the front high vowel /i/. In the same way, the alveolars /s/, /z/ and /n/ are palatalized to ƒ ’and ² respectively, before There may be an epenthesis of after /Å‹/ in word medial positions, thus creating a phonetic cluster ‹gin a process of fortition. There is long distance nasal harmony, in which /l/ is realized as if the previous morphemes contain /m/ or /n/, but not prenasalized stops. Vowels There are two contrasting tones: a high ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Instituto Nacional De EstatÃstica (Angola) , the national statistical agency of Brazil
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Instituto Nacional de EstatÃstica (Portuguese for "National Institute for Statistics") may refer to: *Instituto Nacional de EstatÃstica (Cape Verde) - the national statistical agency of Cape Verde * Instituto Nacional de EstatÃstica (Mozambique) - the national statistical agency of Mozambique *Instituto Nacional de EstatÃstica (Portugal) - the national statistical agency of Portugal *Instituto Nacional de EstatÃstica (São Tomé and PrÃncipe) - the national statistical agency of São Tomé and PrÃncipe * Instituto Nacional de EstatÃstica - the original name of the present Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e EstatÃstica The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ( pt, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e EstatÃstica; IBGE) is the agency responsible for official collection of statistical, geographic, cartographic, geodetic and environmental information ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maianga
Maianga is one of the six municipalities of the administrative division of the province of Luanda, Angola. In 2011, as part of a restructuring of Luanda's regional government, the municipality was designated as one of Luanda's six urban districts. The area is one of the older quarters of Luanda and was established before independence. The area is best known for Quatro de Fevereiro Airport and its strong musical culture. History The name Maianga comes from the word Kimbundu Mazanga which means ponds. Before being urbanized, Maianga was an area known as a place that was routinely submerged by rainwater. The area was attractive to residents on account of the existence of two wells called Maianga do Rei and Maianga do Povo. The wells are located in the neighborhoods of Prenda and Cassenda. The northern part of Maianga is an extension of the colonial center of Luanda. The neighborhoods in the northern part of Maianga are formally built and set on paved streets with city services. N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rangel (Angola)
Rangel is one of the six urban districts that make up the municipality of Luanda, in the province of Luanda, the capital of Angola. The Rangel District is one of the older and more urbanized in Metropolitan Luanda. The district has an area of 6.2 square kilometers. The district is best known as the home of Americo Boavida University Hospital as well as several large sporting facilities including Pavilhão da Cidadela, Pavilhão Anexo and Pavilhão Anexo II. Orientation At last count in 2006, Rangel was believed to have a population of 261,000. Rangel is bordered to the west by the municipalities of Ingombota, to the north by Sambizanga, to the east by Cazenga and the south by the municipalities Kilamba Kiaxi and Maianga. Rangel consists 12 distinctive neighborhoods. Americo Boavida University Hospital is located in Rangel. The hospital was founded in 1958 and is an important teaching hospital and regional medical center for Luanda. Avenue Deolinda Rodrigues runs along the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cazenga
Cazenga is an city and the most densely populated of the nine municipalities that make up the province of Luanda, Angola. It has a population of 892,401 (2014 census), with an estimated 1,045,722 in 2019, covering an area of 37 km2. Administrative divisions The municipality of Cazenga is made up of three communes: * Cazenga * Tala Hady * Hoji Ya Henda Transportation Cazenga is the site of the workshops for the Luanda Railway. Utilities In a 1974 article American political scientist Gerald J. Bender wrote: "Another account of the sale of water to Africans can be found in the Luandan newspaper, ''ProvÃncia de Angola''. The article reported that water is sold in the slum of Cazenga at an average price of 2.5 escudos (about ten American cents) for five gallons. (The legal minimum daily wage for the district of Luanda in July 1974 was 25 escudos - about one American dollar-per day.) ''A ProvÃncia de Angola'' See also * Railway stations in Angola Railway stations in Ango ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viana, Angola
Viana is an city and one of the nine municipalities that make up the province of Luanda in Angola. Viana lies 15 to 30 kilometers east as a suburb of the capital Luanda and has a population of 2,092,439 (2022), including about 6,000 long-term refugees primarily from Katanga Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in .... The city was founded on 13 December 1963. Because of its proximity to the Luanda, Viana has experienced in recent years a very large increase in population and industry. Administrative divisions The municipality of Viana is made up of three communes: * Zango, Viana, Zango * Calumbo * Viana (commune), Viana Transportation Near Viana the new airport of Luanda, the Angola International Airport, will be built by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talatona
Talatona is an city and municipality in the province of Luanda, bordering the Angolan capital, Luanda. It was designed by the Angolan government to reduce traffic in central Luanda; Its infrastructure was built in a location south of Luanda, which currently houses several administrative and economic services that were relocated from the central zone of the capital. According to the 2018 population projections prepared by the National Institute of Statistics, it has a population of approximately 500,000 inhabitants.It is made up of the headquarters commune, which also bears the name Talatona, and the commune of Benfica; Ministério da Administração do Território e Reforma do Estado. 2018. It is further subdivided into the urban districts of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vila Estoril
Vila Estoril is a town in Angola, located in the province of Luanda. See also * Communes of Angola The Communes of Angola ( pt, comunas) are Administrative division, administrative units in Angola after Municipalities of Angola, municipalities. The 163 municipalities of Angola are divided into communes. There are a total of 618 communes of Ang ... References Populated places in Luanda Province {{Angola-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
