Loango, Republic of Congo

Loango
Loango Location in the Republic of the Congo
Coordinates: 4°39′22″S11°48′41″E / 4.65611°S 11.81139°E / -4.65611; 11.81139
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

City of Loango in 1747

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

• Loango slavery harbour

Notes

1. "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.
2. "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.
3. Loango Map — Satellite Images of Loango.
4. Jones 1983, p. 49.
5. Martin 2009, p. 31.
6. Congo: Loango slavery port abandoned.
7. 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