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Luanda Municipality

The Municipality of Luanda is one of the nine municipalities that make up the province of Luanda, Angola.

The place

The Municipality of Luanda is one of the nine municipalities that make up the province of Luanda, Angola. It covers roughly 116 km2 (45 sq mi) and includes Ilha de Luanda. The population was 2,194,747 at the 2014 census and is projected to be 2,571,861 in 2019 per Instituto Nacional de Estatística, República de Angola.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Luanda Municipality

5 places 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 da Cidadela

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

    2.8 km · building in Africa · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Catholic University of Angola

    The Catholic University of Angola is a Catholic institution in Angola's capital of Luanda. On 7 August 1992, the government of Angola allowed the Angolan Catholic Church to establish its own university.

    1.6 km · university in Angola · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Technical University of Angola

    The Technical University of Angola is a higher education university in Luanda, Angola. It was founded in 2007.

    3.2 km · private university in Luanda, Angola · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Pavilhão da Cidadela

    Pavilhão da Cidadela is an Angolan indoor sporting arena located in Luanda, Angola. The capacity of the arena is 6,873 people.

    2.9 km · indoor sporting arena in Luanda, Angola · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Campo de São Paulo

    Campo de São Paulo is a multi-use stadium located in Bairro dos Congolenses, Luanda, Angola. The stadium has a capacity of 5,000 people, and previously hosted Girabola matches prior to falling into disuse and disrepair.

    2 km · 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.

Go there

Getting to Luanda Municipality

Airports
Quatro de Fevereiro (LAD), 5 km · Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto (NBJ), 34 km
  • Pointe Noire → Luanda Municipality
    474 km · quickest by air, 6h 42m · $200–300
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  • Kinshasa → Luanda Municipality
    550 km · quickest by air, 5h 14m · $220–340
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  • Brazzaville → Luanda Municipality
    555 km · quickest by air, 4h 59m · $200–310
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  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Luanda Municipality

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 Luanda Municipality. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIn 2018 a new ferry started on the Luanda to Cabinda, which is useful to avoid a transit through the DR Congo.
  • Get aroundEco Tur also do 4x4 and minibus hire and airport transfers with bilingual drivers (paul@eco-tur.com) +244 912 501 387 B Home will provide airport pick ups and are available for hire (drivers) +244 222 264 423 B Home has offices in Luanda, and in the US.
  • Get aroundCongestion is a major problem with lack of public transport and the plethora of minibus taxis.

From Wikivoyage: Luanda, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    7 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,332 km
  2. 02
    SossusvleiNA

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,780 km
  3. 03
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    2,016 km
  4. 04
    South Luangwa National Park and MfuweZM

    12 ways of moving, 36 sources

    2,075 km
  5. 05
    Ssese IslandsUG

    11 ways of moving, 14 sources

    2,300 km

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

Around it

Next door to Luanda Municipality

Luanda Municipality is 2 km from Cazenga, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

The place page for Luanda MunicipalityAll the notesEvery note on Angola