Loango, Republic of Congo
Loango | |
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  Loango Location in the Republic of the Congo | |
| Coordinates: 4°39′22″S 11°48′41″E / 4.65611°S 11.81139°E | |
| Country | Republic of the Congo |
| Department | Kouilou |
| District | Loango |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 |
Loango (can also be written as Luango, Lwango, Luangu, Lwangu, Luaangu or Lwaangu) is a town of the Republic of the Congo. Located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, Loango had a population of 21,016 in 2023, the date of the country's last official census.[1]
Since 2011 it has been the capital of the Kouilou Department and of the new Loango District.[2]
Location
Loango lies on the south coast of the Loango Bay, to the southwest of Diosso, a few kilometers north of the city of Pointe-Noire.[3]
History
Diosso was the former capital of the Kingdom of Loango and home to its rulers' mausoleum.[4] Roman Catholic missionaries were active in Diosso, which had a royal palace.[5] The port of Loango was formerly a major slavery port, but the site has now been abandoned and few traces remain.[6]
The first radiotelegraph link in the tropics, between Brazzaville and Loango, was created around 1910 using techniques developed by Joseph Bethenod, chief engineer of the Société française radio-électrique (SFR).[7]
See also
Notes
- ^ "Cinquieme Recensement General De La Population Et De L'habitation (RGPH-5): Populations Residentes Des Localites Du Congo" (PDF) (in French). Brazzaville: Institut National de la Statistique (INS). Retrieved 2025-02-03.
{cite web}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Loi n°20-2011 du 17 mai 2011 portant création du district de Loango et érection de la localité de Loango en chef-lieu du département du Kouilou" (PDF). sgg.cg. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
- ^ Loango Map — Satellite Images of Loango.
- ^ Jones 1983, p. 49.
- ^ Martin 2009, p. 31.
- ^ Congo: Loango slavery port abandoned.
- ^ Delacroix & Piernas 2016, p. 3.
Sources
- Clark, John Frank; Decalo, Samuel (2012), Historical Dictionary of Republic of the Congo, Scarecrow Press, ISBN 978-0-8108-4919-8, retrieved 2018-01-17
- "Congo: Loango slavery port abandoned", The Morning Call, retrieved 2018-01-17 – via AfricaNews
- Delacroix, Laurent; Piernas, Gersende (2016), Société française radio-électrique (SFR - Thomson) (PDF) (in French), Roubaix: Archives nationales du monde du travail, retrieved 2017-10-05
- Jones, Adam (1983), German Sources for West African History, 1599-1669, Steiner, ISBN 978-3-515-03728-0, retrieved 14 March 2011
- "Loango Map — Satellite Images of Loango", maplandia, retrieved 2018-01-17
- Martin, Phyllis (2009), Catholic Women of Congo-Brazzaville: Mothers and Sisters in Troubled Times, Indiana University Press, ISBN 978-0-253-22055-4, retrieved 13 March 2011
