Cabinda
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Cabinda is a city located in Cabinda Province, which is part of Angola. The province and its city are notable as an oil-rich enclave separated from the rest of Angola, making it strategically important to the country's economy.
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- Locality
- Cabinda
- Region
- Cabinda
- Country
- Angola
- Population
- 550,000
- Timezone
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Cabinda, also known as Chioua, is a city and a municipality in the Cabinda Province, an exclave of Angola. It is the administrative capital of Cabinda. Angolan sovereignty over Cabinda is disputed by the secessionist Republic of Cabinda. The city of Cabinda had a population of 550,000 and the municipality a population of 624,646, at the 2014 Census. The residents of the city are known as Cabindas or Fiotes. Cabinda, due to its proximity to rich oil reserves, serves as one of Angola's main oil ports. With a territorial area of 1,823 km², it is the most populous municipality in the province and the ninth most populous in the country.
There are considerable offshore oil reserves nearby.