Dundo, also known as Dundo-Chitato, is a city in Lunda Norte Province, Angola, on the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and serves as the provincial capital. It began in 1912 as a planned diamond mining settlement after diamonds were found on the Musalala River, and grew under the mining company Diamang from 1917. Its 2024 census population was 240,410, and the city has its own airport and an ethnographic museum.
Facts
Founding Year Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Dundo (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)
population 177,604 (2014)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude -7.380056, longitude 20.835056
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 177604 (2014)
View the Source2. Dundo (Wikipedia)
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Dundo, or Dundo-Chitato, is a former mining town, with a population of 240,410 (2024 census), now a city and the provincial capital of Lunda Norte in Angola.
History: founding statement
The settlement of Dundo was founded in 1912 after the discovery of diamonds in the Musalala River, a tributary of the Chiumbue River located in the north-eastern border of Angola where it today adjoins the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- In Group: Cities of Middle Africa (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source3. GeoNames: Dundo - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 145757
-7.36643 20.81557 P PPLA AO 17 145775 177604 733 Africa/Luanda
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 733 m
View the Source 4. 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 -7.25, 20.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -7.25, 20.75
-7.25 20.75 Aw
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