Cabinda (city)

Province

Cabinda, known locally also Tchiowa, Tsiowa or Kiowa, is a town in the eponymous and pro-independence Angolan province of Cabinda, which is surrounded as northern exclave of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Congo and with its coast in the west to the Atlantic borders.

Cabinda city has 186,000 inhabitants at 1823 km ² (102 inhabitants / km ²), ie it live in the provincial capital, six out of ten inhabitants of the province on a quarter of the area. The birth rate and population growth are high.

The city was founded by the Portuguese for the shipment of slaves. She has a major seaport. Were off the coast and larger oil deposits prospected and exploited.