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Pointe-Noire

Pointe-Noire is the second largest city of the . It is a major sea port and a tourist destination. The town has a very French feel to it because of the colonial past and the large number of French expatriates and tourists.
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  • Type: City with 1,010,000 residents
  • Description: city in the Republic of the Congo
  • Also known as: “CapitaThe Economic” and “Pointe-Noire, Congo-Brazzaville”
Photo: ArnoBOUJIKA, CC BY 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pointe-Noire railway station and Stade Municipal.

Railway station
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
Pointe-Noire train station is a Congolese railway station on the Pointe-Noire-Brazzaville line. With the train station of Brazzaville, it is one of the two terminus of this line at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, in the department of Pointe-Noire.

Stadium
Photo: Dorellkongo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a multi-use in Pointe-Noire, . It is used for football matches and serves as the home of Association Sportive des Cheminots and Jeunesse Sportive les Bougainvillées. It holds 13,594 spectators.

Aerodrome
Antonio-Agostinho-Neto International Airport is an airport serving Pointe-Noire, a coastal city in the . The runway is surrounded by the densely populated city, and is 3 kilometres inland from the Atlantic shore.

Pointe-Noire

Latitude
-4.7975° or 4° 47′ 51″ south
Longitude
11.8503° or 11° 51′ 1″ east
Population
1,010,000
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
IATA airport code
PNR
United Nations Location Code
CG PNR
Open location code
6F7H6V22+X4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2448258134
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2255414
Wiki­data ID
Q223920
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Pointe-Noire” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Arabic: “بوانت نوار”
  • Arabic: “بوانت-نوار”
  • Armenian: “Պուեն Նուար”
  • Armenian: “Պուենտ Նուար”
  • Asturian: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Azerbaijani: “Point-Noyr”
  • Azerbaijani: “Puent-Nuar”
  • Basque: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Belarusian: “Пуэнт-Нуар”
  • Bengali: “পয়েন্টে-নইরে”
  • Bengali: “পোয়াঁত-নোয়ার”
  • Breton: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Bulgarian: “Поант Ноар”
  • Catalan: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Cebuano: “Pointe-Noire (kapital sa departamento)”
  • Cebuano: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Chinese: “普安特-努瓦尔”
  • Chinese: “黑角”
  • Croatian: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Czech: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Danish: “Pointe Noire”
  • Danish: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Dutch: “Pointe Noire”
  • Dutch: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوانت نوار”
  • Esperanto: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Estonian: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Finnish: “Pointe Noire”
  • Finnish: “Pointe-Noire”
  • French: “Pointe-noire”
  • French: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Galician: “Ndjindji”
  • Galician: “Njinji”
  • Galician: “Pointe-Noire, República do Congo”
  • Galician: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Georgian: “პუენტ-ნუარი”
  • German: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Greek: “Πουέντ-Νουάρ”
  • Guarani: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Gujarati: “પોઇન્ટ-નોઇર”
  • Hausa: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Hebrew: “פואנט נואר”
  • Hindi: “पॉइंट - नुआ”
  • Hindi: “पॉइंट-नोयर”
  • Hungarian: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Indonesian: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Irish: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Italian: “Pointe Noire”
  • Italian: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Japanese: “ポワント＝ノワール”
  • Japanese: “ポワントノワール”
  • Kannada: “ಪಾಯಿಂಟ್-ನೊಯಿರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Пуэнт-Нуар”
  • Kirghiz: “Пуэнт-Нуар”
  • Kongo: “Ndindi”
  • Kongo: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Kongo: “Ponton”
  • Kongo: “Pwente-Nwale”
  • Korean: “푸앵트누아르”
  • Latin: “Urbs Nigrirostrensis”
  • Latvian: “Puentnara”
  • Latvian: “Puentnuāra”
  • Lingala: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Lingala: “Pwantenwa”
  • Lithuanian: “Puant Nuaras”
  • Lithuanian: “Puent Nuaras”
  • Malagasy: “Pointe-Noire (Repoblikan‘ i Kôngô)”
  • Malagasy: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Malay: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Maltese: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Marathi: “पॉइंट-नॉयर”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ponte-Noire”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Norwegian: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Persian: “پوینت نوآر”
  • Persian: “پوینته نویر”
  • Polish: “Pointe Noire”
  • Polish: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Portuguese: “Pointe Noire”
  • Portuguese: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Romanian: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Russian: “Пуэнт-Нуар”
  • Serbian: “Poant Noar”
  • Serbian: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Serbian: “Поант Ноар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Silesian: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Sinhala: “පොයින්ටේ නොයිර්”
  • Sinhala: “පොයින්ටේ-නොයර්”
  • Slovenian: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Somali: “Pointe-Noire”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پوینته نویر”
  • Spanish: “Pointe Noire, Congo-Brazzaville”
  • Spanish: “Pointe-Noire, República del Congo”
  • Spanish: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Swahili: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Swedish: “Pointe Noire”
  • Swedish: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Tamil: “பாயிண்டே -நோயிரே”
  • Tamil: “பாயிண்டே-நோயிரே”
  • Telugu: “పాయింట్-నోయిర్”
  • Thai: “ปวงต์-นัวร์”
  • Turkish: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Ukrainian: “Пуент-Нуар”
  • Urdu: “پوانت-نوار”
  • Venetian: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Vietnamese: “Pointe-Noire”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pointe-Noire”
  • Wu Chinese: “黑角”
  • Zulu: “Pointe-Noire”
  • “Pointe-Noire”

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