Place:Cabinda, Cabinda, Angola

Watchers
  • no watchers
Larger map


NameCabinda
TypeCity
Coordinates5.567°S 12.2°E
Located inCabinda, Angola
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Cabinda or Tchiowa, as it is called by the Cabindans, is a city that is located in the Cabinda Province, an exclave of Angola. Angolan sovereignty over Cabinda is disputed by the Republic of Cabinda. The municipality of Cabinda contained 357,576 inhabitants in 2008.

The city was originally founded by the Portuguese around the port for the purposes of the slave trade.

There are considerable offshore oil reserves nearby.

[edit]

Research Tips

This place has no commentary yet. It is only a stub. You can help by editing it and sharing what you know: research tips, history, relationships with other places, etc.


This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Cabinda (city). The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WeRelate, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
Retrieved from "http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Place:Cabinda%2C_Cabinda%2C_Angola"