Noqui | |
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: | Zaire Province |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2014 Census |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 23880 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Coordinates: | -5.8681°N 13.4325°W |
Blank Name: | Climate |
Blank Info: | Aw |
Noqui (or Noki) is a town and municipality in Zaire Province in Angola.[2] It is on the Congo River, just across the border from the city of Matadi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The municipality had a population of 23,880 in 2014.[3]
Noki was the site of an early European trading post. In 1884 Alexandre Delcommune was appointed director of the Belgian factories in Boma and Noki.[4] In December 1884 Lieutenant Eduard Schulze tried to found a German colony near Noqui.[5]