Angola
Northern Angola
Zaire Province

M’banza-Kongo

M'banza-Kongo is a city of 175,000 in , near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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  • Type: City with 83,400 residents
  • Description: capital of Angola’s northwestern Zaire Province
  • Also known as: “M’banza Congo”, “M’Banza Congo”, “M’banza Kongo”, “M’Banza Kongo”, “M’banza-Congo”, “M’Banza-Congo”, “M’Banza-Kongo”, “Mabanza Congo”, “Mabanza Kongo”, “Mabanza-Congo”, “Mabanza-Kongo”, “Mbanza Congo”, “Mbanza Kongo”, “Mbanza-Congo”, “Mbanza-Kongo”, “S. Salvador”, “S. Salvador de Congo”, “S. Salvador del Congo”, “S. Salvador do Congo”, “S. Salvador, Angola”, “San Salvador de Congo”, “San Salvador del Congo”, “San Salvador, Angola”, “Sao Salvador”, “Sao Salvador do Congo”, “Sao Salvador, Angola”, and “São Salvador, Angola”
  • Historically known as: “San Salvador”, “São Salvador”, and “São Salvador do Congo”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mbanza Congo Airport and Cathedral of the Holy Saviour of Congo.

Aerodrome
is an airport serving M'banza Congo, the capital of in northwestern Angola. Passenger flights resumed in August 2017 following an eight-year gap, during which the airport was closed for construction works.

Church
The was a Catholic church built at the end of the 15th century in M'banza-Kongo, the capital of the Kingdom of Kongo.

M’banza-Kongo

Latitude
-6.2678° or 6° 16′ 4″ south
Longitude
14.2418° or 14° 14′ 31″ east
Population
83,400
Elevation
531 metres (1,742 feet)
IATA airport code
SSY
United Nations Location Code
AO SSY
Open location code
6F5PP6JR+VP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 668897842
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2239520
Wiki­data ID
Q500189
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Satellite Map

Discover M’banza-Kongo from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“M’banza-Kongo” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “M’Banza Congo”
  • Afrikaans: “M’Banza Kongo”
  • Afrikaans: “M’Banza-Kongo”
  • Afrikaans: “Mabanza Congo”
  • Afrikaans: “Mbanza Kongo”
  • Arabic: “مبانزا كونغو”
  • Armenian: “Մբանզա-Կոնգո”
  • Armenian: “Մբանզա–Կոնգո”
  • Asturian: “M’banza-Kongo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mbanza-Konqo”
  • Belarusian: “М’банза Конга”
  • Belarusian: “М’банза-Конга”
  • Belarusian: “Мбанза Конга”
  • Belarusian: “Мбанза-Конга”
  • Bengali: “ম’বাঞ্জা-কঙ্গো”
  • Bulgarian: “Мбанза Конго”
  • Catalan: “Mbanza Kongo”
  • Cebuano: “Mbanza Congo (kapital sa lalawigan sa Angola)”
  • Cebuano: “Mbanza Congo”
  • Chinese: “姆班扎刚果”
  • Chinese: “姆班扎剛果”
  • Chinese: “姆班扎孔戈”
  • Croatian: “M’banza Kongo”
  • Dagbani: “Mbanza-Congo”
  • Danish: “M’Banza Kongo”
  • Danish: “M’banza-Kongo”
  • Dutch: “M’banza-Kongo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مبانزا كونجو”
  • Esperanto: “M’banza Kongo”
  • Esperanto: “M’Banza Kongo”
  • Esperanto: “Mbanza Kongo”
  • Finnish: “Mbanza Kongo”
  • French: “Mabanza Congo”
  • French: “Mbanza Kongo”
  • French: “Mbanza-Kongo”
  • French: “São Salvador du Congo”
  • Galician: “Mbanza-Kongo”
  • Georgian: “მბანზა-კონგო”
  • German: “M’banza Congo”
  • German: “M’banza Kongo”
  • German: “M’Banza Kongo”
  • German: “M’Banza-Kongo”
  • German: “Mabanza Congo”
  • German: “Mbanza Congo”
  • German: “Mbanza Kongo”
  • German: “Mbanza-Kongo”
  • German: “Sao Salvador do Congo”
  • German: “São Salvador do Congo”
  • Greek: “Εμπάνζα Κόνγκο”
  • Greek: “Εμπάνζα-Κόνγκο”
  • Greek: “Μ’μπάνζα Κόνγκο”
  • Gujarati: “એમ્બાન્ઝા-કોંગો”
  • Hausa: “M’banza-Kongo”
  • Hebrew: “מבאנזה קונגו”
  • Hindi: “मबाना कांगो”
  • Indonesian: “M’banza-Kongo”
  • Italian: “Mbanza Congo”
  • Italian: “Mbanza Kongo”
  • Japanese: “ムバンザ・コンゴ”
  • Japanese: “ムバンザコンゴ”
  • Japanese: “ンバンザ・コンゴ”
  • Japanese: “ンバンザ＝コンゴ”
  • Kannada: “ಎಂ‘ಬನ್ಜಾ-ಕಾಂಗೋ”
  • Kongo: “Mabanza Congo”
  • Kongo: “Mbanza Kongo”
  • Kongo: “Mbânza Kôngo”
  • Kongo: “Mbanza-Kongo”
  • Korean: “음반자콩구”
  • Kotava: “Mbanza-Kongo”
  • Latin: “Civitas Sancti Salvatoris de Congo”
  • Latin: “Mbanza Kongo”
  • Latvian: “Mbanza Kongo”
  • Lithuanian: “Mabanza Congo”
  • Lithuanian: “Mbanza Kongas”
  • Lithuanian: “Mbanza Kongo”
  • Luxembourgish: “M’banza Kongo”
  • Malay: “Mbanza Kongo”
  • Maltese: “M’banza Congo”
  • Maltese: “M’Banza-Kongo”
  • Maltese: “Mbanza Kongo”
  • Marathi: “मबनझा-काँगो”
  • Moksha: “Мбанза Конго”
  • Northern Frisian: “M’banza-Kongo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “M’banza-Kongo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mabanza Congo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mbanza Kongo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mbanza-Kongo”
  • Norwegian: “M’banza-Kongo”
  • Persian: “مبنزاکنگو، آنگولا”
  • Persian: “مبنزاکنگو”
  • Polish: “M’Banza Congo”
  • Polish: “M’Banza Kongo”
  • Polish: “M’banza-Kongo”
  • Polish: “Mabanza Congo”
  • Polish: “Mbanza Kongo”
  • Polish: “Mbanza-Kongo”
  • Portuguese: “M’banza congo”
  • Portuguese: “M’banza Congo”
  • Portuguese: “M’Banza Kongo”
  • Portuguese: “Mabanza Congo”
  • Portuguese: “Mbanza Congo”
  • Portuguese: “Mbanza Kongo”
  • Portuguese: “São Salvador do Congo”
  • Romanian: “M’Banza Kongo”
  • Romanian: “M’Banza-Kongo”
  • Romanian: “Mabanza Congo”
  • Russian: “М’банза-Конго”
  • Russian: “М’Банза-Конго”
  • Russian: “Мбанза-Конго”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “M’banza-Kongo”
  • Sinhala: “එම්බන්සා -කොන්ගෝ”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مبنزاکنقو، آنقولا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مبنزاکنقو”
  • Spanish: “M’Banza Kongo”
  • Spanish: “M’banza-Kongo”
  • Spanish: “Mabanza Congo”
  • Spanish: “Mbanza Congo”
  • Spanish: “Mbanza Kongo”
  • Spanish: “Mbanzacongo”
  • Spanish: “San Salvador del Congo”
  • Swahili: “M’banza-Kongo”
  • Swedish: “Mbanza-Kongo”
  • Tamil: “ம்பனிஜா-கொங்கோ”
  • Telugu: “ఎమ్‘బంజా-కోంగో”
  • Thai: “เอ็ม บานซา คองโก”
  • Turkish: “M’banza-Kongo”
  • Ukrainian: “М’Банза-Конго”
  • Ukrainian: “Мбанза-Конго”
  • Urdu: “میبازا-کونگو”
  • Uzbek: “M’banza-Kongo”
  • Vietnamese: “M’banza-Kongo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “M’banza-Kongo”
  • Western Panjabi: “میبازا-کونگو”
  • Zulu: “M’banza-Kongo”

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