1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Angola
Compare this sourced profile of Luanda, 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 Luanda—2,776,168, 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: capital of Angola.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Luanda is GeoNames ID 2240449. Its recorded administrative path is Luanda → Angola, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Luanda 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 2024-03-26; 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, Luanda ranks 131 by recorded population. Inside the 14 selected Angola entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 26. Its 2,776,168 population value is 4.24 times the 654,033 median for the country cohort and 3.08 times the 902,588 regional median. Luanda falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Angola population cohort. Luanda's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Luanda's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Maianga at 1.162 km with 727,681 recorded people; Golfe at 4.459 km with 655,796 recorded people; Hoji ya Henda at 7.026 km with 642,050 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 5.864 km. Compared with Maianga, Luanda's recorded population is 3.82 times as large. Against Luanda, Maianga follows Luanda → Angola in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Angola cohort, uses the shared Africa/Luanda identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Luanda's. Against Luanda, Golfe follows Luanda → Angola in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Angola cohort, uses the shared Africa/Luanda identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Luanda's. Against Luanda, Hoji ya Henda follows Luanda → Angola in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Angola cohort, uses the shared Africa/Luanda identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Luanda's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 7 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Luanda's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth of the atlas. 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 2240449, the coordinate pair 8.8368 / 13.2343, country rank 1 of 14, and neighbor GeoNames 2239888 at 1.162 km bind Luanda to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Luanda's reference point is 8.8368° south and 13.2343° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Luanda is shared by 14 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Luanda's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Luanda's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Luanda's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Luanda, 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
Luanda's closest other entries in this atlas are Maianga (1.162 km), Golfe (4.459 km), Hoji ya Henda (7.026 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-03-26; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.