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Bailundo
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), in the province of Huambo, Angola.

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

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.

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. Kings are considered to be significant community leaders, and play important roles in local matters.

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.
  2. ^ Citypopulation.de Archived 2020-04-22 at the Wayback Machine Population of cities & urban localities in Angola
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  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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