Cabinda

city in Cabinda Province, Angola

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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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Place details

Locality: Cabinda
Region: Cabinda
Country: Angola
Population: 550,000
Timezone: Africa/Luanda

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Cabinda
Population: 699053
Area: 7270
Elevation: 24
Image: Cabinda VOA.png

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Commons category: Cabinda (city)
native label: Cabinda
inception: 1883-00-00
P12749: Curacautín

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Travel guide

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Cabinda used to be known as Portuguese Congo. The Portuguese did at times attempt to control the territory between Cabinda and the rest of their holdings in southwest Africa, which would have made things a lot more convenient for the Angolans today. But the territorial discontinuity of what would become Angola was set by the 1884 Berlin Conference, which established that Leopold of Belgium's personal property of the "Congo Free State" would extend along the Congo River to the Atlantic.

The Front for the Liberation of the Exclave of Cabinda (FLEC) has waged a secessionist struggle against the Angolan government since independence. The province's vast oil reserves, first explored by the Portuguese in the 1950s, guarantee that the Angolan government will use its powerful army to maintain tight control. Expect to see a very large military and police presence here.

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Article

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.