1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Angola
Compare this sourced profile of Cabinda, Angola before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Cabinda—550,000, Africa/Luanda, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: city in Cabinda Province, Angola.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Cabinda is GeoNames ID 2243271. Its recorded administrative path is Cabinda → Angola, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Cabinda occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-13; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Cabinda ranks 1,013 by recorded population. Inside the 14 selected Angola entries it ranks 13; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 212. Its 550,000 population value is 0.84 times the 654,033 median for the country cohort and 0.61 times the 902,588 regional median. Cabinda sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Angola entries. Cabinda's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Cabinda's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Pointe-Noire at 94.774 km with 1,032,000 recorded people; Brazzaville at 371.25 km with 1,982,000 recorded people; Kinshasa at 371.765 km with 16,000,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 276.991 km. Compared with Pointe-Noire, Cabinda's recorded population is 0.53 times as large. Against Cabinda, Pointe-Noire follows Pointe-Noire → Congo - Brazzaville in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Congo - Brazzaville cohort rather than Angola, uses Africa/Brazzaville instead of Africa/Luanda, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Cabinda's. Against Cabinda, Brazzaville follows Brazzaville → Congo - Brazzaville in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Congo - Brazzaville cohort rather than Angola, uses Africa/Brazzaville instead of Africa/Luanda, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Cabinda's. Against Cabinda, Kinshasa follows Kinshasa → Congo - Kinshasa in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Congo - Kinshasa cohort rather than Angola, uses Africa/Kinshasa instead of Africa/Luanda, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Cabinda's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 675 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Cabinda's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 2243271, the coordinate pair 5.5620 / 12.1948, country rank 13 of 14, and neighbor GeoNames 2255414 at 94.774 km bind Cabinda to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Cabinda's reference point is 5.5620° south and 12.1948° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Luanda is shared by 14 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Cabinda's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Cabinda's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Cabinda's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Cabinda, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Cabinda's closest other entries in this atlas are Pointe-Noire (94.774 km), Brazzaville (371.25 km), Kinshasa (371.765 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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