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Municipality and city in Cabinda Province, Angola

Cabinda

Cabinda, also known as Chioua, is a city and a municipality in the Cabinda Province, an exclave of Angola.

Cabinda
Cabinda · Wikimedia Commons (see file page)
The place

Cabinda, also known as Chioua, is a city and a municipality in the Cabinda Province, an exclave of Angola. It is the administrative capital of Cabinda. Angolan sovereignty over Cabinda is disputed by the secessionist Republic of Cabinda. The city of Cabinda had a population of 550,000 and the municipality a population of 624,646, at the 2014 Census. The residents of the city are known as Cabindas or Fiotes. Cabinda, due to its proximity to rich oil reserves, serves as one of Angola's main oil ports. With a territorial area of 1,823 km², it is the most populous municipality in the province and the ninth most populous in the country.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cabinda

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Estádio Nacional do Chiazi

    The Estádio Nacional do Chiazi is a multi-use stadium in Cabinda, Angola. Completed in 2010, it is used mostly for football matches.

    8 km · football stadium · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Cabinda

Airports
Antonio Agostinho-Neto (PNR), 89 km
Stations
Cabinda Airport, 4.1 km
  • Luanda → Cabinda
    382 km · quickest by air, 10h 37m · $360–530
  • Luanda (Ícolo e Bengo) → Cabinda
    383 km · quickest by air, 10h 37m · $370–540
  • Pointe Noire → Cabinda
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · $11–15
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cabinda

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Cabinda. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    PríncipeST

    7 ways of moving, 13 sources

    958 km
  2. 02
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    2,009 km
  3. 03
    SossusvleiNA

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    2,159 km
  4. 04
    Ssese IslandsUG

    11 ways of moving, 14 sources

    2,299 km
  5. 05
    South Luangwa National Park and MfuweZM

    12 ways of moving, 36 sources

    2,306 km

If you know how people move in Cabinda – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.