This is a list of renamed places in
Angola.
Country
Prior to independence in 1975, Angola was known as
Portuguese Angola, or occasionally Portuguese West Africa. Upon independence, the country was renamed the
Republic of Angola
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Cities and towns
* Teixeira da Silva →
Bailundo
Bailundo (pre-1975 Vila Teixeira da Silva) is a municipality, with a population of 294,494 (2014), and a town, with a population of 70,481 (2014), in the province of Huambo, Angola.
In the 1990s, Bailundo was the location of the headquarters of ...
(1975)
* Benguella →
Benguela
Benguela (; Umbundu: Luombaka) is a city in western Angola, capital of Benguela Province. Benguela is one of Angola's most populous cities with a population of 555,124 in the city and 561,775 in the municipality, at the 2014 census.
History
Por ...
(1975)
*
Vila Robert Williams →
Caála
Caála is a town and a municipality located 23 km west of the city of Huambo, in the namesake province in Angola. It was known as Vila Robert Williams while Angola was a Portuguese colony, after the famous railroad developer and mining magna ...
(1975)
* Concelho →
Caconda
Caconda is a town and a municipality in the province of Huíla, Angola. The municipality had a population of 167,820 in 2014.
It is located the Plano Alto region, approximately 280 km North of Lubango, the provincial capital city, and appr ...
(1975)
* Amboim → Cabela →
Gabela
* Huambo → Nova Lisboa (1928) →
Huambo (1975)
* Silva Porto →
Kuito (1975)
* Loanda →
Luanda (1975)
* Teixeira de Sousa →
Luau (1975)
* Sá da Bandeira →
Lubango
Lubango, formerly known as Sá da Bandeira, is a municipality in Angola, capital of the Huíla Province, with a population of 914,456 in 2022. The city center had a population of 600,751 in 2014 making it the second-most populous city in Angola af ...
* Vila Luso →
Luena (1975)
* São Salvador →
M'banza-Kongo
Mbanza-Kongo (, , or , known as São Salvador in Portuguese from 1570 to 1975), is the capital of Angola's northwestern Zaire Province with a population of 148,000 (2014). Mbanza Kongo (properly Mbanza Koongo or Kôngo in most acceptable orthog ...
(1975)
* Serpa Pinto →
Menongue
Menongue, formerly Serpa Pinto, is a town, a municipality, and the capital of Cuando Cubango Province in Angola. The municipality had a population of 320,914 in 2014. It is one of the four municipalities in Angola whose inhabitants are predominan ...
(1975)
* Moçâmedes → Namibe (1985) →
Moçâmedes (2016)
* Vila Salazar →
N'dalatando (1975)
* Kissonde → Benguela → Benguela Velha →
Porto Amboim (1923)
* Henrique de Carvalho →
Saurimo (1975)
* Santo António do Zaire →
Soyo (1975)
* Novo Redondo →
Sumbe
Sumbe, formerly Novo Redondo, is a city located in west central Angola. It is the administrative capital of Cuanza Sul Province. In 2014 its population was 279,968.
Climate
The city has a dry tropical climate. The hottest temperatures are from ...
(1975)
* Porto Alexandre →
Tômbwa (1975)
* Uíge → Vila Marechal de Carmona (1955) → Carmona →
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 ...
(1975)
* Santa Comba →
Waku-Kungo
Uaco Cungo (before 1975 Santa Comba, also Waco Kungo or Cela) is a town, with a population of 90,000 (2014),Citypopulati ...
(1975)
Proposed
*
Porto Amboim → Gunza/Porto Gabela
*
Cabinda → Tchiowa
Other places
* University of General Studies of Angola → University of Luanda (1968) →
Agostinho Neto University (1985)
See also
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Lists of renamed places
These are lists of renamed places by country, sorted by continent.
Africa
* — List of renamed places in Angola
* — List of renamed places in Chad
* — Former place names in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
* — List of renamed p ...
References
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