Bailundo (pre-1975 Vila Teixeira da Silva) is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the ...

, with a population of 294,494 (2014), and a town, with a population of 70,481 (2014), in the province of

Huambo Huambo, formerly Nova Lisboa (English: ''New Lisbon''), is the third-most populous city in Angola, after the capital city Luanda and Lubango, with a population of 595,304 in the city and a population of 713,134 in the municipality of Huambo (Cens ...

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. In the 1990s, Bailundo was the location of the headquarters of

UNITA The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( pt, União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola, abbr. UNITA) is the second-largest political party in Angola. Founded in 1966, UNITA fought alongside the Popular Movement for ...

leader

Jonas Savimbi Jonas Malheiro Savimbi (; 3 August 1934 – 22 February 2002) was an Angolan revolutionary politician and rebel military leader who founded and led the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). UNITA waged a guerrilla war agai ...

. On January 19, 2008, a

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Beechcraft B200 Super King Air on approach to

Huambo Airport Huambo Airport is a public use airport near the eastern edge of the city of Huambo in Huambo Province, Angola. In a May 2016 aerial image, the coordinates show a narrow dirt road over-arched in several places by trees. The full-services Alban ...

crashed on a mountain near Bailundo, killing all 13 people on board. Located in Bailundo is the non-sovereign Kingdom of Bailundo. In 2021, Tchongolola Tchongonga was elected king of the Kingdom, to succeed Ekuikui IV who was deposed earlier in the same year. Kings are considered to be significant community leaders, and play important roles in local matters.

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Municipalities of Angola Populated places in Huambo Province {{Angola-geo-stub

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