Luanda

Luanda, 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.
  • City with about 2,490,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (20 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code LAD
  • Description: capital of Angola
  • Also known as
    “Loanda”
    “Loanda, Angola”
    “Luanda, Angola”
    “Saint Paul de Loanda”
    “Saint Paul of Loanda”
    “Saint Paul of Luanda”
    “São Paolo de Loanda”
    “São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda”
    “São Paulo da Assunção de Luanda”
    “São Paulo de Loanda”
    “São Paulo, Angola”
    “St Paul de Loanda”
    “St. Paul of Loanda”
    “St. Paul of Luanda”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Luanda International Airport and Estádio da Cidadela.
Aerodrome
Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport, is the old international airport of Luanda, in .
Pitch
is a stadium in Luanda, Angola.
Stadium
Campo de São Paulo is a multi-use located in Bairro dos Congolenses, Luanda, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Maianga and Samba.
is one of the six municipalities of the…
is one of the 17 municipalities that make up the Luanda Province, .
Suburb
is a town and commune of , located in the province of .
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Latitude
-8.84° or 8° 50′ 24″ south
Longitude
13.242° or 13° 14′ 31″ east
UN/LOCODE
AO LAD
Open location code
6F3M565R+XR
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Luanda” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Луанда”
  • Afrikaans: “Luanda”
  • Albanian: “Luanda”
  • Amharic: “ሏንዳ”
  • Arabic: “لواندا”
  • Aragonese: “Luanda”
  • Armenian: “Լուանդա”
  • Arpitan: “Luanda”
  • Asturian: “Luanda”
  • Azerbaijani: “Luanda”
  • Balinese: “Luanda”
  • Bashkir: “Луанда”
  • Basque: “Luanda”
  • Belarusian: “Луанда”
  • Bengali: “লুয়ান্ডা”
  • Bosnian: “Luanda”
  • Breton: “Luanda”
  • Bulgarian: “Луанда”
  • Burmese: “လုအန်ဒါမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Luanda”
  • Cebuano: “Luanda”
  • Central Bikol: “Luanda”
  • Central Kurdish: “لواندا”
  • Chechen: “Луанда”
  • Chinese: “卢安达”
  • Chinese: “盧安達”
  • Chinese: “罗安达”
  • Chinese: “羅安達”
  • Chinese: “魯安達”
  • Cornish: “Luanda”
  • Croatian: “Luanda”
  • Czech: “Luanda”
  • Dagbani: “Luanda”
  • Danish: “Luanda”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Luanda”
  • Dutch: “Luanda (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Luanda”
  • Eastern Mari: “Луанда”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لواندا”
  • Esperanto: “Luando”
  • Estonian: “Luanda”
  • Ewe: “Luanda, Angola”
  • Ewe: “Luanda”
  • Ewe: “São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda”
  • Extremaduran: “Luanda”
  • Faroese: “Luanda”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Luanda”
  • Finnish: “Luanda”
  • French: “Luanda”
  • Galician: “Luanda”
  • Ganda: “Luanda”
  • Georgian: “ლუანდა”
  • German: “Loanda”
  • German: “Luanda”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Loanda”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Luanda”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Saint Paul of Loanda”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Saint Paul of Luanda”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “São Paulo de Loanda”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “São Paulo, Angola”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “St. Paul of Loanda”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “St. Paul of Luanda”
  • Greek: “Λουάντα”
  • Gujarati: “લુઆન્ડા”
  • Haitian: “Louanda”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Luanda”
  • Hausa: “Luanda”
  • Hebrew: “לואנדה”
  • Hindi: “लुआंडा”
  • Hindi: “लुआण्डा”
  • Hungarian: “Luanda”
  • Icelandic: “Lúanda”
  • Ido: “Luanda”
  • Iloko: “Luanda”
  • Inari Sami: “Luanda”
  • Indonesian: “Luanda”
  • Interlingua: “Luanda”
  • Interlingue: “Luanda”
  • Irish: “Luanda”
  • Italian: “Loanda”
  • Italian: “Luanda”
  • Japanese: “ルアンダ”
  • Javanese: “Luanda”
  • Kabiyè: “Luwandaa”
  • Kabyle: “Luanda”
  • Kannada: “ಲುವಾಂಡ”
  • Karekare: “Luanda”
  • Kazakh: “Луанда қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Луанда”
  • Kildin Sami: “Луанда”
  • Kirghiz: “Луанда”
  • Kongo: “Lwanda”
  • Korean: “루안다”
  • Kotava: “Luanda”
  • Kurdish: “Luanda”
  • Latin: “Luanda”
  • Latvian: “Luanda”
  • Ligurian: “Luanda”
  • Lingala: “Lwanda”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Luanda”
  • Lithuanian: “Luanda”
  • Livvi: “Luanda”
  • Lombard: “Luanda”
  • Lule Sami: “Luanda”
  • Luxembourgish: “Luanda”
  • Macedonian: “Луанда”
  • Malagasy: “Luanda”
  • Malay: “Luanda”
  • Malayalam: “ലുവാൻഡ”
  • Maltese: “Luanda”
  • Manipuri: “ꯂꯨꯑꯥꯟꯗꯥ”
  • Maori: “Luanda”
  • Maori: “Ruanata”
  • Marathi: “लुआंडा”
  • Mazanderani: “لوآندا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Luanda”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Luanda”
  • Minangkabau: “Luanda”
  • Mingrelian: “ლუანდა”
  • Mirandese: “Luanda”
  • Moksha: “Луанда”
  • Mongolian: “Луанда”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لواندا”
  • N'Ko: “ߟߎߥߊ߲ߘߊ߫”
  • Northern Frisian: “Luanda”
  • Northern Sami: “Luanda”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Luanda”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Luanda”
  • Norwegian: “Luanda”
  • Novial: “Luanda”
  • Nyanja: “Luanda”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Luanda”
  • Oromo: “Luwaandaa”
  • Ossetian: “Луандæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਲੁਆਂਦਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Luanda”
  • Persian: “لوآندا”
  • Piemontese: “Luanda”
  • Pite Sami: “Luanda”
  • Polish: “Luanda”
  • Portuguese: “Categoria:Luanda”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Luanda”
  • Portuguese: “Luanda”
  • Portuguese: “São Paulo de Luanda”
  • Portuguese: “Loanda” (historical)
  • Pushto: “لوآندا”
  • Quechua: “Luanda”
  • Romanian: “Luanda”
  • Romansh: “Luanda”
  • Russian: “Луанда”
  • Santali: “ᱞᱩᱣᱟᱱᱰᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Luanda”
  • Scots: “Luanda, Angolae”
  • Scots: “Luanda”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Luanda”
  • Serbian: “Луанда”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Luanda”
  • Shona: “Luanda”
  • Silesian: “Luanda”
  • Sindhi: “لوانڊا”
  • Sinhala: “ලුවන්ඩා”
  • Sinhala: “ලොන්ඩා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Luanda”
  • Slovak: “Luanda”
  • Slovenian: “Luanda”
  • Somali: “Luanda”
  • Somali: “Luwanda”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لوآندا”
  • Southern Sami: “Luanda”
  • Spanish: “Luanda”
  • Swahili: “Luanda”
  • Swedish: “Luanda”
  • Tagalog: “Luanda”
  • Tajik: “Луанда”
  • Tamil: “லுஎண்டா”
  • Tamil: “லுவாண்டா”
  • Telugu: “లువాండా”
  • Tetum: “Luanda”
  • Thai: “ลูอันดา”
  • Tibetan: “ལའུན་ཌ།”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Luanda”
  • Tswana: “Luanda”
  • Turkish: “Luanda”
  • Turkmen: “Luanda”
  • Twi: “Luanda”
  • Udmurt: “Луанда”
  • Uighur: “لۇئاندا”
  • Ukrainian: “Луанда”
  • Ume Sami: “Luanda”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Luanda”
  • Urdu: “لواندا”
  • Uzbek: “Luanda”
  • Venetian: “Luanda”
  • Veps: “Luand”
  • Vietnamese: “Luanda”
  • Volapük: “Luanda”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Luanda”
  • Welsh: “Luanda”
  • Western Frisian: “Lûanda”
  • Western Mari: “Луанда”
  • Western Panjabi: “لواندا”
  • Western Panjabi: “لونڈا”
  • Wolof: “Luanda”
  • Wu Chinese: “罗安达”
  • Yakut: “Луанда”
  • Yiddish: “לואנדע”
  • Yoruba: “Luanda”
  • Yue Chinese: “Luanda”
  • Yue Chinese: “羅安達”
  • Zulu: “i-Luanda”
  • Zulu: “Luanda”

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