Bungo, Luanda

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Bungo is a bairro of Luanda, the capital city of Angola. It is the site of the principal passenger terminus of the Luanda Railway. In 2013, work began on doubling the railway track from Bungo station to Baía. [1]

Bairro community or region within a Portuguese-speaking city or municipality

A bairro is a Portuguese word for a quarter or a neighborhood or, sometimes, a district within a city or town. It is commonly used in Brazil, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal and other Portuguese-speaking places. Bairro is cognate with Germanic berg, burg, borg, burgh, borough etc, and Spanish barrio, all of which descend from the same Proto-Indo European root.

Luanda City in Angola

Luanda, formerly named São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda, is the capital and largest city in Angola, and the country's most populous and important city, primary port and major industrial, cultural and urban centre. Located on Angola's coast with the Atlantic Ocean, Luanda is both Angola's chief seaport and its administrative centre. It is also the capital city of Luanda Province and the most populous Portuguese-speaking capital city in the world.

Angola country in Africa

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a west-coast country of south-central Africa. It is the seventh-largest country in Africa, bordered by Namibia to the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Zambia to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Angola has an exclave province, the province of Cabinda that borders the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The capital and largest city of Angola is Luanda.

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  1. Africa, Railways (2015-07-27). "LUANDA TRACK DOUBLING" . Retrieved 2017-07-18.

Coordinates: 8°48′19″S13°14′40″E / 8.80528°S 13.24444°E / -8.80528; 13.24444

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