Bailundo
Municipality and town
Bailundo is located in Angola
Bailundo
Bailundo
Location in Angola
Coordinates: 12°11′45″S 15°51′20″E / 12.19583°S 15.85556°E / -12.19583; 15.85556
Country Angola
ProvinceHuambo
Area
 • Total2,765 sq mi (7,161 km2)
Population
 (2014 Census)[1]
 • Total294,494
 • Density110/sq mi (41/km2)
ClimateCwb

12°11′45″S 15°51′20″E / 12.19583°S 15.85556°E / -12.19583; 15.85556

Bailundo (pre-1975 Vila Teixeira da Silva) is a municipality, with a population of 294,494 (2014), and a town, with a population of 70,481 (2014),[2] in the province of Huambo, Angola.

In the 1990s, Bailundo was the location of the headquarters of UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi.[3]

On January 19, 2008, a Gira Globo Aeronáutica Beechcraft B200 Super King Air on approach to Huambo Airport in Huambo crashed on a mountain near Bailundo, killing all 13 people on board.[4]

Located in Bailundo is the non-sovereign Kingdom of Bailundo. In 2021, Tchongolola Tchongonga was elected king of the Kingdom, to succeed Ekuikui IV who was deposed earlier in the same year.[5] Kings are considered to be significant community leaders, and play important roles in local matters.[6][7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Resultados Definitivos Recenseamento Geral da População e Habitação – 2014 Província do Huambo" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estatística, República de Angola. Retrieved 3 May 2020.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Citypopulation.de Archived 2020-04-22 at the Wayback Machine Population of cities & urban localities in Angola
  3. ^ "IRIN Update 377 for 18 Mar 98.3.18". www.africa.upenn.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2017-07-05.
  4. ^ Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Beechcraft B200 Super King Air D2-FFK Bailundo". aviation-safety.net. Archived from the original on 2017-10-15. Retrieved 2017-07-05.
  5. ^ "You are being redirected..." www.angop.ao. Archived from the original on 2021-11-11. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
  6. ^ "Paying homage to an Angolan king". 2003-09-25. Archived from the original on 2020-08-08. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  7. ^ Florêncio, Fernando (2017-08-04), "No Reino da Toupeira. Autoridades Tradicionais do M'balundu e o Estado Angolano", Vozes do Universo Rural : Reescrevendo o Estado em África, ebook'IS (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Internacionais, pp. 79–175, ISBN 978-989-8862-32-7, archived from the original on 2021-07-28, retrieved 2022-08-21


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