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Pointe-Noire
4.77° S, 11.88° E
- Population
- 659,084
- Population from Natural Earth (POP_MAX). The source does not state which year the figure belongs to, so no year is shown.
- Population rank
- 2 of 12
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 12 cities of Congo in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Congo, so this is not a national ranking.
- Founded
- 1883
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Elevation
- 14 m
- Elevation above sea level from Wikidata (P2044), rounded to the metre. A city whose sources give two different elevations shows no row.
- Area
- 2,134 km²
- Total area from Wikidata (P2046). Where two statements differ by less than half a percent the smaller is shown; a larger disagreement (land area against total area, say) shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Pointe-Noire Department
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Website
- developpement-durable.gouv.cg/2017/06/05/pointe-noire-ponton-la-belle
- Official website from Wikidata (P856).
- Time zone
- Africa/Brazzaville
Traveler brief
Only what this atlas can source — no hours, prices, visas or safety advice.
Practical bearings for Pointe-Noire, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Pointe-Noire have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
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