Malanje

This article deals with the city of Malanje. For the province of the same name see Province of Malanje .

Malanje
Malanje
Coordinates	9 ° 32 ′  S , 16 ° 21 ′  E Coordinates: 9 ° 32 ′  S , 16 ° 21 ′  E
Basic data
Country	Angola
province	Malanje
Município	Malanje
Comuna	Malanje
Residents	587,000 (2019)
politics
mayor	Osvaldo Naval dos Santos
City center of Malanje

Malanje (also Malange ) is a city and a district in Angola with about 587,000 inhabitants. Most of the population belongs to different sub-groups of the Ambundu .

The city has been the seat of a Catholic and a Methodist bishop since the middle of the 20th century.

climate

Malanje
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     120   27 15th     107   28 16     203   28 16     164   28 15th     23   29 13     1   29 9     0   29 9     6th   29 12     42   29 14th     131   28 15th     205   27 16     123   27 16 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: climate-data.org

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Malanje Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 27.4 27.9 27.9 27.5 28.5 28.5 29 29.4 29.1 27.9 27 27 O 28.1 Min. Temperature (° C) 15.4 15.7 15.7 15.4 12.8 8.7 8.6 11.5 14.1 15.3 15.6 15.7 O 13.7 Temperature (° C) 12.4 21.8 21.8 21.4 20.6 18.6 18.8 20.4 21.6 21.6 21.3 21.3 O 20.1 Precipitation ( mm ) 120 107 203 164 23 1 0 6th 42 131 205 123 Σ 1,125 Rainy days ( d ) 25th 23 26th 27 18th 1 1 1 12 27 28 25th Σ 214 Humidity ( % ) 84 82 87 88 80 73 70 69 66 73 85 88 O 78.7 Source: climate-data.org

administration

Malanje is the capital of the Malanje Province . The city is the seat of a district of the same name ( Município ).

The Malanje district consists of four municipalities (Comunas):

• Cambaxe
• Malanje
• Ngola Luige
• Quimbamba

traffic

The new Malanje train station (2011)

With the Luanda Railway performs a railway in the state rail company CFA ( Caminhos de Ferro de Angola ) from the capital Luanda to Malanje. However, due to the decolonization conflict in 1974/75 and the Angolan civil war from 1975 to 2002, operations were shut down for years and only resumed in January 2011.

Malanje has an airport with the IATA airport code MEG and the ICAO code FNMA.

education

In Malanje is u. a. the Universidade Njinga Mbande, created in 2019 with a medical faculty, the Instituto Superior Politécnico de Malanje , the Instituto Superior de Tecnologia Agro Alimentar and the Universidade Privada de Malange (UPRIMA).

sons and daughters of the town

• Alexandre do Nascimento (* 1925), Archbishop of Luanda
• Oscar Lino Lopes Fernandes Braga (1931–2020), Bishop of Benguela
• José Mena Abrantes (* 1945), writer
• José Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos (* 1950), multiple minister, 2009 OPEC President
• João de Vallera (* 1950), Portuguese diplomat
• Paulo José Lopes Figueiredo (* 1972), football player
• Lebo Lebo (born 1977), football player

Web links

• Profile of Malanje County on the official website for the 2014 census

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article of May 10, 2014 on the mayor's statement on the successes of municipal improvement programs, state news agency ANGOP , accessed on May 10, 2014
2. ↑ Population statistics ( memento of the original from July 13, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. citypopulation.de , accessed on June 15, 2019. 
3. ↑ Malanje Airport at www.world-airport-codes.com, accessed on May 10, 2014
4. ↑ Mais uma universidade na província de Malanje jornaldeangola.sapo.ao , March 27, 2019, accessed on June 16, 2019.
5. ↑ Aberta nova universidade na província de Malange portaldeangola.com , June 9, 2017, accessed on June 16, 2019.