Bungo is a town and municipality in
Uíge Province
Uíge (pronunciation: ; kg, Wizidi) is one of the eighteen Provinces of Angola, located in the northwestern part of the country. Its capital city is of the same name.
History
During the Middle Ages, the Uíge Province was the heartland of the ...
, Angola.
The municipality, established on August 16, 1916, has about 2156 square
kilometers
The kilometre ( SI symbol: km; or ), spelt kilometer in American English, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one thousand metres (kilo- being the SI prefix for ). It is now the measurement unit used for ex ...
and 37,153 residents in 2014.
It is bounded by the municipalities of
Damba
The damba (''Paretroplus damii'') is a species of cichlid.
Etymology
The genus name ''Paretroplus'' is composed by the Greek ''Para'' (meaning ''similar to'') and ''Etroplus'' (a closely related genus of Indian cichlids). The Latin species nam ...
(north),
Sanza Pombo (east),
Puri
Puri () is a coastal city and a Nagar Palika, municipality in the state of Odisha in eastern India. It is the district headquarters of Puri district and is situated on the Bay of Bengal, south of the state capital of Bhubaneswar. It is als ...
and
Negage
Negage is a town and municipality (''município'') of the Uíge province in Angola
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(south), and
Uíge
Uíge ( kg, Wizidi), formerly Carmona, is a provincial capital city in northwestern Angola, with a population of 322,531 (2014 census), and a municipality, with a population of 519,196 (2014 census), located in the province of the same name. I ...
and
Mucaba (west). The capital, of the same name, is its only town.
References
Populated places in Uíge Province
1916 establishments in the Portuguese Empire
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