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Menongue, formerly Serpa Pinto, is a municipality and the capital of Cubango Province in Angola. The municipality had a population of 320,914 in 2014. It is one of the four municipalities in Angola whose inhabitants are predominantly Mbunda.

Key facts

Settlement.name
Menongue
Settlement.other_name
Serpa Pinto
Settlement.settlement_type
Municipality
Settlement.pushpin_map
Angola
Settlement.pushpin_label_position
right
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
300
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
Location in Angola
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Cubango
Settlement.area_total_km2
23500
Settlement.population_as_of
2014
Settlement.population_total
320914
Settlement.population_density_km2
auto
Settlement.population_urban
251178
Settlement.population_blank1_title
Ethnicities
Settlement.timezone
WAT
Settlement.utc_offset
+1

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Menongue, formerly Serpa Pinto, is a municipality and the capital of Cubango Province in Angola. The municipality had a population of 320,914 in 2014. It is one of the four municipalities in Angola whose inhabitants are predominantly Mbunda.

Menongue is the current terminus of the Moçâmedes Railway, from Moçâmedes, and also home of the small Menongue Airport.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Menongue” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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