Porto Amboim
Porto Amboim is a port town in Cuanza Sul Province, Angola with a population of 65,000; it comprises an area of 4,638 km2. In the past Porto Amboim was connected by an isolated 123 km 610 mm narrow gauge railway to Gabela, albeit closed in 1987 due to the civil war and to the abandonment of most coffee plantations, the biggest source of revenue from Gabela.- Type: Town with 91,600 residents
- Description: city in Angola
- Also known as: “Ambonim”, “Ambouim”, “Kissonde”, “Port Amboim”, “Quissonde”, and “ポルト・アンボイン”
- Historically known as: “Old Benguela”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Porto Amboim Airport.
Porto Amboim
- Categories: city, port city, municipality of Angola, big city, and locality
- Location: Porto Amboim, Kwanza Sul Province, Angola, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-10.7279° or 10° 43′ 41″ south
Longitude
13.7579° or 13° 45′ 28″ east
Population
91,600
Elevation
36 metres (118 feet)
IATA airport code
PBN
UN/LOCODE
AO PBN
Open location code
5FXM7QC5+R5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Zulu—“Porto Amboim” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Porto Amboim”
- Catalan: “Porto Amboim”
- Cebuano: “Porto Amboim”
- Chinese: “安博因港”
- Croatian: “Porto Amboim”
- Dagbani: “Porto Amboim”
- Danish: “Porto Amboim”
- Dutch: “Porto Amboim”
- Esperanto: “Porto Amboim”
- Finnish: “Porto Amboim”
- French: “Porto Amboim”
- Fulah: “Porto Amboim”
- Galician: “Porto Amboim”
- German: “Porto Amboim”
- Greek: “Πόρτο Αμποΐμ”
- Greek: “Πόρτο Αμπόιμ”
- Hungarian: “Porto Amboim”
- Indonesian: “Porto Amboim”
- Irish: “Porto Amboim”
- Italian: “Porto Amboim”
- Japanese: “ポルト・アンボイム”
- Lithuanian: “Porto Amboinas”
- Malay: “Porto Amboim”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Porto Amboim”
- Persian: “پورتو امبیم”
- Polish: “Porto Amboim”
- Portuguese: “Benguela Velha”
- Portuguese: “Benguela-a-Velha”
- Portuguese: “Benguella Velha”
- Portuguese: “Porto Amboim”
- Portuguese: “Porto Hmboim”
- Romanian: “Gunza”
- Romanian: “Porto Amboim”
- Russian: “Порто-Амбоим”
- Russian: “Порту Амбоим”
- Russian: “Порту-Амбоин”
- South Azerbaijani: “پورتو امبیم، آنقولا”
- South Azerbaijani: “پورتو امبیم”
- Spanish: “Amboim”
- Spanish: “Porto Amboim”
- Swahili: “Porto Amboim”
- Swedish: “Porto Amboim”
- Tatar: “Порту-Амбоим”
- Urdu: “پورٹو امبوئم”
- Uzbek: “Porto Amboim”
- Venetian: “Porto Amboim”
- Zulu: “Porto Amboim”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Pinda and Lagoa da Ngonga.
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Highlights: Instituto Superior Politécnico de Porto Amboim (ISUP) and Instituto Superior Politécnico de Porto Amboim.
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