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Loango (can also be written as ''Luango'', ''Lwango'', ''Luangu'', ''Lwangu'', ''Luaangu'' or ''Lwaangu'') is a town of the
Republic of the Congo The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo), is a country located on the western coast of Central ...
. Located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, Loango had a population of 21,016 in 2023, the date of the country's last official census. Since 2011 it has been the capital of the
Kouilou Department Kouilou ( ) is a department of the Republic of the Congo. Covering the country's coastline, it has an area of 13,650 square kilometres and at the start of 2023 it was home to about 97,362 people. The department borders Niari Department, the ...
and of the new
Loango District Loango is a district in the Kouilou Region of far south-western Republic of the Congo The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbourin ...
.


Location

Loango lies on the south coast of the Loango Bay, to the southwest of
Diosso Diosso is a town in the Republic of Congo, lying about 25 kilometres north of Pointe-Noire in the Kouilou Department along National Highway 5. It was the capital of the Loango Kingdom and is home to its rulers' mausoleum. Roman Catholic missiona ...
, a few kilometers north of the city of
Pointe-Noire Pointe-Noire (; , with the letter d following French spelling standards) is the second largest city in the Republic of the Congo, following the capital of Brazzaville, and an autonomous department and a commune since the 2002 Constitution. B ...
.


History

Diosso was the former capital of the
Kingdom of Loango The Kingdom of Loango (also ''Luangu'', ''Luaangu'', ''Lwaangu'', ''Lwangu'', ''Luango'', ''Lwango'', ''Luaango'' or ''Lwaango'' Iko Kabwita Kabolo, ''Le royaume Kongo et la mission catholique 1750-1838'', KARTHALA Editions, 2004, p. 303-313) w ...
and home to its rulers'
mausoleum A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A mausoleum without the person's remains is called a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type o ...
. Roman Catholic missionaries were active in Diosso, which had a royal palace. The port of Loango was formerly a major slavery port, but the site has now been abandoned and few traces remain. The first radiotelegraph link in the tropics, between
Brazzaville Brazzaville () is the capital (political), capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo. Administratively, it is a Departments of the Republic of the Congo, department and a Communes of the Republic of the Congo, commune. Constituting t ...
and Loango, was created around 1910 using techniques developed by Joseph Bethenod, chief engineer of the
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(SFR).


See also

* Loango slavery harbour


Notes


Sources

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