Menongue | |
Other Name: | Serpa Pinto |
Settlement Type: | Municipality and town |
Pushpin Map: | Angola |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Angola |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Angola |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Cuando Cubango Province |
Area Total Km2: | 23500 |
Population As Of: | 2014 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 320914 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Urban Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Urban: | 251178 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Coordinates: | -14.6556°N 17.6842°W |
Elevation M: | 1354 |
Blank Name: | Climate |
Blank Info: | Cwa |
Menongue, formerly Serpa Pinto, is a town, a municipality, and the capital of Cuando Cubango Province in Angola. The municipality had a population of 320,914 in 2014.[3] It is one of the four municipalities in Angola whose inhabitants are predominantly Mbunda.
Menongue is the current terminus of the Moçâmedes Railway, from Moçâmedes,[4] and also home of the small Menongue Airport.
During the colonial period, the town was called Serpa Pinto, in honour of the namesake Portuguese explorer.
FC Cuando Cubango, promoted to the 2018 Girabola, the top flight of Angolan soccer, play in Menongue.