Central Africa
Angola
Luanda Province

Maianga

Maianga is one of the six municipalities of the administrative division of the , Angola. In 2011, as part of a restructuring of Luanda's regional government, the municipality was designated as one of Luanda's six urban districts.
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  • Type: Suburb with 319,000 residents
  • Description: urban District of Luanda
  • Address: Luanda

Places of Interest

Highlights include Our Lady Muxima - National Museum of Natural History of Angola and Fortress of São Miguel.

Museum
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The Museu Nacional de História Natural de Angola is located in the District of the city of , . Established in 1938, it is the only museum of natural history in Angola.

Photo: Erik Cleves Kristensen, CC BY 2.0.
Fortaleza de São Miguel or Saint Michael Fortress was a fortress built in 1576 in the District of Luanda, Angola. During Dutch rule in Angola between 1641 and 1648, the fort was known as Fort Aardenburgh.

Museum
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The Museum of the Armed Forces is located in Fortaleza de São Miguel de Luanda, in the District of , . Founded in 1975, following the independence of Angola, the museum includes bi-motor airplanes, combat vehicles, and diverse arms and artifacts used during the Angolan War of Independence, the South African Border War, and the Angolan Civil War.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Luanda and Sambizanga.

Photo: ויקיג’אנקי, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, the capital of , is on the Atlantic coast. Its current renaissance is an inspiring success story. Decades of conflict, which only ended in 2002, had long held Angola back.

Suburb
is one of the six urban districts that make up the , in the , Angola. is situated 5 km northeast of Maianga.

Suburb
is one of the six urban districts that make up the in Luanda Province, .

Maianga

Latitude
-8.8268° or 8° 49′ 36″ south
Longitude
13.2304° or 13° 13′ 49″ east
Population
319,000
Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)
Open location code
6F3M56FJ+75
Open­Street­Map ID
node 770027266
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2239888
Wiki­data ID
Q985130
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Spanish—“Maianga” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Maianga”
  • French: “Maianga”
  • German: “Maianga”
  • Italian: “Maianga”
  • Japanese: “マイアンガ”
  • Portuguese: “Maianga”
  • Spanish: “Maianga”

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