Benguela
Benguela is a city in western Angola, capital of Benguela Province. Benguela is one of Angola's most populous cities with a population of 555,124 in the city and 561,775 in the municipality, at the 2014 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 513,000 residents
- Description: city in Angola
- Also known as: “São Félipe de Benguela”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Our Lady Fátima Cathedral and Igreja Nossa Senhora do Populo.
Our Lady Fátima Cathedral
Church
The Our Lady of Fatima Cathedral or simply Cathedral of Benguela is a religious building of the Catholic Church which is in Benguela, in the African country of Angola and serves as the cathedral of the Diocese of Benguela.
Igreja Nossa Senhora do Populo
Church
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
Igreja Nossa Senhora do Populo is a church.
Acácias Rubras Pavillion
Sports venue
The Pavilhão Acácias Rubras is an Angolan indoor sporting arena located in Benguela. The arena, built on the occasion of the 2007 Afrobasket along with the Pavilhão Nossa Senhora do Monte in Lubango, Pavilhão Serra Van-Dúnem in Huambo and the Pavilhão do Tafe in Cabinda, has a 2,100-seat capacity.
Benguela
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Benguela Province, Central Angola, Angola, Central Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-12.579° or 12° 34′ 44″ southLongitude
13.4037° or 13° 24′ 13″ eastPopulation
513,000Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)IATA airport code
BUGUnited Nations Location Code
AO BUGOpen location code
5FVMCCC3+9FOpenStreetMap ID
node 331385969OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3351663Wikidata ID
Q214248
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Benguela” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Benguela”
- Afrikaans: “Benguella”
- Arabic: “بنغويلا”
- Arabic: “بنغيلا”
- Armenian: “Բենգելա”
- Asturian: “Benguela”
- Basque: “Benguela”
- Belarusian: “Бенгела”
- Belarusian: “Бэнгела”
- Bengali: “বেনগুয়েলা”
- Breton: “Benguela”
- Bulgarian: “Бенгела”
- Catalan: “Benguela”
- Cebuano: “Benguela (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Benguela”
- Chinese: “本吉拉”
- Chinese: “本格拉”
- Croatian: “Benguela”
- Czech: “Benguela”
- Danish: “Benguela”
- Dutch: “Benguela”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بنجيلا”
- Esperanto: “Benguela”
- Finnish: “Benguela”
- French: “Benguela”
- French: “Benguéla”
- Galician: “Benguela”
- Georgian: “ბენგელა”
- German: “Benguela”
- German: “Benguella”
- Greek: “Μπενγκέλα”
- Gujarati: “બેંગુએલા”
- Hausa: “Benguela”
- Hindi: “बेंगुएला”
- Hungarian: “Benguela”
- Ido: “Benguela”
- Indonesian: “Benguela”
- Interlingue: “Benguela”
- Irish: “Benguela”
- Italian: “Benguela”
- Japanese: “ベンゲラ”
- Javanese: “Benguela”
- Kannada: “ಬೆಂಗುವಲಾ”
- Korean: “벵겔라”
- Latin: “Benguela”
- Latvian: “Bengela”
- Lithuanian: “Bengela”
- Lithuanian: “Benguela”
- Lithuanian: “Benguella”
- Luxembourgish: “Benguela”
- Malagasy: “Benguela”
- Malay: “Benguela”
- Marathi: “बेंग्लाला”
- Mirandese: “Benguela”
- Northern Frisian: “Benguela”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Benguela”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Benguela”
- Norwegian: “Benguela”
- Persian: “بنگوئلا”
- Polish: “Benguela”
- Portuguese: “Benguela”
- Portuguese: “Cidade de Benguela”
- Portuguese: “Comuna de Benguela”
- Portuguese: “Município de Benguela”
- Portuguese: “São Filipe de Benguela”
- Romanian: “Benguela”
- Russian: “Бенгела”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Benguela”
- Silesian: “Benguela”
- Sinhala: “බෙන්ගුලා”
- Slovak: “Benguela”
- South Azerbaijani: “بنقوئلا، آنقولا”
- South Azerbaijani: “بنقوئلا”
- Spanish: “Benguela”
- Swahili: “Benguela”
- Swedish: “Benguela”
- Tagalog: “Benguela”
- Tajik: “Vilojati Benguela”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Бенгуэла”
- Tamil: “பெண்குலா”
- Telugu: “బెన్గుయెల్”
- Thai: “เบงกีลา”
- Turkish: “Benguela”
- Ukrainian: “Бенгела”
- Urdu: “بینگوئلا”
- Uzbek: “Benguela”
- Venetian: “Benguela”
- Vietnamese: “Benguela”
- Waray (Philippines): “Benguela”
- Western Panjabi: “بینگوئلا”
- Wu Chinese: “本格拉”
- Zulu: “Benguela”
- “Benguela”
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