Cabinda is the capital city of Cabinda Province, an exclave of Angola on the Atlantic coast, sited on the right bank of the Bele River. The settlement began around 1490 as a fishing community, became a Portuguese trading post in 1620, and was formally founded in 1883 following the Treaty of Simulambuco, receiving official city status in 1956. The municipality had an estimated 739,182 residents in mid 2020, with roughly 550,000 in the city proper at the 2014 census. Cabinda is one of Angola's main oil ports, reflecting its proximity to significant offshore oil reserves.
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1. Wikidata: Cabinda
Wikidata Q459360, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source 2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -5.75, 12.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -5.75, 12.25
-5.75 12.25 Aw
3. GeoNames: Cabinda - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2243271, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 2243271, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
-5.56198 12.19476 P PPLA AO 03 550000 1 Africa/Luanda
Cabinda (Wikipedia)
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