Uíge
Sign in to saveUíge (), formerly Carmona, is a provincial capital city in northwestern Angola, with a population of 322,531 (2014 census), and a municipality, with a population of 773,099 (2024 census), located in the province of the same name. It grew from a small market centre in 1945 to become a city in 1956. It is served by the Uíge Airport with daily flights to Luanda.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Uíge
- Settlement.other_name
- Carmona
- Settlement.native_name
- Wizidi
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Rua_Uige.JPG
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Main street in Uíge
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Angola
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Angola
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Uíge Province
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1946
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 1188
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2024
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Uíge (), formerly Carmona, is a provincial capital city in northwestern Angola, with a population of 322,531 (2014 census), and a municipality, with a population of 773,099 (2024 census), located in the province of the same name. It grew from a small market centre in 1945 to become a city in 1956. It is served by the Uíge Airport with daily flights to Luanda.
==Name== Uíge was renamed Vila Marechal Carmona in 1955 after the former Portuguese President Óscar Carmona, renamed simply Carmona after it became a city. The name was changed back to Uíge after independence in 1975.