Luena

Luena, formerly known as Luso, is a city and municipality in eastern , administrative capital of . The municipality had a population of 356,880 in 2024.
Wikipedia
Photo: Pereira Santos Samuel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: City with 456,000 residents
  • Description: town in Moxico Province, Angola
  • Also known as: “Luena, Angola”, “Luene”, “Luzo”, “Vila Luzo”, “Vila Luzu”, and “Villa Luso”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Luena Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: Cmco24b, Public domain.
is an airport serving Luena, the capital of the in Angola. The Luena VOR-DME and the Luena non-directional beacon are on the field.

Luena

Latitude
-11.779° or 11° 46′ 45″ south
Longitude
19.9123° or 19° 54′ 44″ east
Population
456,000
Elevation
1,337 metres (4,386 feet)
IATA airport code
LUO
United Nations Location Code
AO LUO
Open location code
5FWX6WC6+9W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 349039206
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3347719
Wiki­data ID
Q618643
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Luena” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Luena”
  • Afrikaans: “Lwena”
  • Afrikaans: “Vila Luso”
  • Amharic: “ሉዌና”
  • Arabic: “لوينا”
  • Arabic: “وينا”
  • Asturian: “Luena”
  • Azerbaijani: “Luena”
  • Belarusian: “Луэна”
  • Bengali: “লুয়েনা”
  • Catalan: “Luena”
  • Cebuano: “Luena”
  • Chinese: “卢埃纳”
  • Chinese: “盧埃納”
  • Croatian: “Luena”
  • Croatian: “Vila Luso”
  • Czech: “Luena”
  • Danish: “Luena”
  • Dutch: “Luena”
  • Finnish: “Luena”
  • Finnish: “Luso”
  • Finnish: “Lwena”
  • French: “Luena”
  • German: “Luena”
  • German: “Lwena”
  • German: “Vila Luso”
  • Greek: “Λουένα”
  • Gujarati: “લુએના”
  • Hausa: “Luena”
  • Hebrew: “לואנה”
  • Hindi: “लुएना”
  • Hindi: “लूयेन”
  • Hungarian: “Luena”
  • Indonesian: “Luena, Angola”
  • Indonesian: “Luena”
  • Italian: “Luena”
  • Japanese: “ルエナ”
  • Javanese: “Luena”
  • Kannada: “ಲೂಯೆನಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Луена”
  • Kirghiz: “Луена”
  • Kongo: “Luena”
  • Korean: “루에나”
  • Latvian: “Luena”
  • Lithuanian: “Luena”
  • Luxembourgish: “Luena”
  • Malagasy: “Luena”
  • Malay: “Luena”
  • Marathi: “लुयेना”
  • Northern Frisian: “Luena”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Luena”
  • Norwegian: “Luena”
  • Oromo: “Luena”
  • Panjabi: “ਲੁਏਨਾ”
  • Persian: “لونا، آنگولا”
  • Persian: “لونا”
  • Polish: “Luena”
  • Portuguese: “Luena”
  • Portuguese: “Lwena”
  • Portuguese: “Vila Luso”
  • Pushto: “لونا، انګولا”
  • Pushto: “لونا”
  • Pushto: “لوینا”
  • Romanian: “Luena, Angola”
  • Romanian: “Luena”
  • Russian: “Вила-Лусо”
  • Russian: “Луена”
  • Russian: “Луэна”
  • Serbian: “Luena”
  • Serbian: “Вила Лусо”
  • Serbian: “Луена”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Luena (grad)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Luena”
  • Sinhala: “ලුඉනා”
  • Somali: “Luena”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لونا، آنقولا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لونا”
  • Spanish: “Luena”
  • Spanish: “Lwena”
  • Spanish: “Vila Luso”
  • Swahili: “Luena”
  • Swedish: “Luena”
  • Tagalog: “Luena, Angola”
  • Tagalog: “Luena”
  • Tajik: “Луена”
  • Tamil: “லூனா”
  • Tatar: “Луена”
  • Telugu: “లూయేనా”
  • Thai: “ลูอีน่า”
  • Turkish: “Luena”
  • Ukrainian: “Луена”
  • Urdu: “لوئنا، موشیکو صوبہ”
  • Urdu: “لوئنا”
  • Uzbek: “Luena”
  • Vietnamese: “Luena”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Luena, Moxico”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Luena”
  • Western Panjabi: “لوئنا، موشیکو صوبہ”
  • Western Panjabi: “لوئنا”
  • Zulu: “Luena, Angola”
  • Zulu: “Luena”

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