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.
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  • Type: City with 2,600,000 residents
  • 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”, “Sao Paulo de Loanda”, “São Paulo de Loanda”, “Sao Paulo, Angola”, “São Paulo, Angola”, “St Paul de Loanda”, “St Paul of Loanda”, “St Paul of Luanda”, “St. Paul of Loanda”, and “St. Paul of Luanda
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Luanda International Airport and Apostolic Nunciature.

Aerodrome
Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport, is the main international airport of . It is located in the southern part of the capital Luanda, situated in the .

Government office
The to Angola is an ecclesiastical office of the Roman Catholic Church in . It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador.

Pitch
is a stadium in Luanda, . It is used mostly for football matches, while sometimes hosting cultural events, including musical concerts.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Maianga and Samba.

Suburb
is one of the six municipalities of the administrative division of the , Angola. In 2011, as part of a restructuring of Luanda's regional government, the municipality was designated as one of Luanda's six urban districts.

Suburb
is one of the six urban districts that make up the in Luanda Province, .

Suburb
is a town and commune of , located in the province of .

Luanda

Latitude
-8.84° or 8° 50′ 24″ south
Longitude
13.242° or 13° 14′ 31″ east
Population
2,600,000
Elevation
73 metres (240 feet)
IATA airport code
LAD
United Nations Location Code
AO LAD
Open location code
6F3M565R+XR
Open­Street­Map ID
way 693999814
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2240449
Wiki­data ID
Q3897
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Satellite Map

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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: Luanda
  • 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
  • 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: Sao Paulo de Loanda
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: São Paulo de Loanda
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: Sao Paulo, Angola
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: São Paulo, Angola
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: St Paul of Loanda
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: St Paul of Luanda
  • 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
  • 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: 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
  • Zulu: i-Luanda
  • Zulu: Luanda
  • Luanda

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