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Xangongo
Sign in to saveXangongo (pre-1975: Vila Roçadas) is a town with a population of 35,000 (2014), and a commune in the municipality of Ombadja, within the province of Cunene, in Angola.
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Place details
- Locality
- Xangongo
- Region
- Cunene
- Country
- Angola
- Population
- 35,000
- Timezone
- Africa/Luanda
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Xangongo
- Settlement.settlement_type
- commune and town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Brücke Xangango.JPG
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Angola
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Angola
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Cunene
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Ombadja
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 2580
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2014
- Settlement.population_total
- 70568
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
- Settlement.timezone
- WAT
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of Angola
- Country
- Angola
- Located in
- Cunene Province
- Image
- Brücke Xangango.JPG
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- Xangongo
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Xangongo and SWAPO
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- References
Xangongo (pre-1975: Vila Roçadas) is a town with a population of 35,000 (2014), and a commune in the municipality of Ombadja, within the province of Cunene, in Angola.
Xangongo is also the seat of Ombadja municipality. The commune was also the site of considerable fighting in the Namibian War of Independence and the Angolan Civil War.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Xangongo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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