Mbanza Congo Airport is an airport serving
M'banza Congo
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 ...
, the capital of
Zaire Province in northwestern
Angola
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. Passenger flights resumed in August 2017 following an eight-year gap, during which the airport was closed for construction works.
The Mbanza Congo
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(Ident: SS) is located just northeast of the field.
History
The airport closed in 2009 for a refurbishment project and did not reopen to commercial air traffic until August 2017, when
Sonair introduced domestic flights.
See also
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List of airports in Angola
This is a list of airports in Angola, sorted by location.
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its ...
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Transport in Angola
Transport in Angola comprises:
Roads
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Transportation Jingu.jpg, Three-wheeled motorcycles.
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References
External links
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OpenStreetMap - Mbanza Congo
Mbanza
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