Angola
Kwanza Sul Province
Porto Amboim

Porto Amboim

Porto Amboim is a port town in , 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 , albeit closed in 1987 due to the civil war and to the abandonment of most coffee plantations, the biggest source of revenue from Gabela.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Town with 91,600 residents
  • Description: city in Angola
  • Also known as: “Ambonim”, “Ambouim”, and “Port Amboim”
  • Historically known as: “Old Benguela”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Porto Amboim Airport.

Aerodrome
is an airport serving Porto Amboim, a coastal city in , . The Porto Amboim non-directional beacon is on the field.

Porto Amboim

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
United Nations Location Code
AO PBN
Open location code
5FXM7QC5+R5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 352680227
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3346661
Wiki­data ID
Q1018592
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Satellite Map

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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”
  • 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”
  • Japanese: “ポルト・アンボイン”
  • Lithuanian: “Porto Amboinas”
  • Malay: “Porto Amboim”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Porto Amboim”
  • Persian: “پورتو امبیم، آنگولا”
  • Persian: “پورتو امبیم”
  • Polish: “Porto Amboim”
  • Portuguese: “Benguela Velha”
  • Portuguese: “Benguela-a-Velha”
  • Portuguese: “Benguella Velha”
  • Portuguese: “Kissonde”
  • Portuguese: “Porto Amboim”
  • Portuguese: “Porto Hmboim”
  • Portuguese: “Quissonde”
  • 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”
  • Uzbek: “Porto Amboim”
  • Venetian: “Porto Amboim”
  • Zulu: “Porto Amboim”

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