Cabinda, Angola

Cabinda, Angola is a submarine cable landing point in Angola (coordinates -5.5565°, 12.1898°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Angola's international connectivity infrastructure.

Cabinda, also known as Chioua, is a city and a municipality located in the Cabinda Province, an exclave of Angola. It is the administrative capital of Cabinda. Angolan sovereignty over Cabinda is disputed by the secessionist Republic of Cabinda. The city of Cabinda had a population of 550,000 and the municipality a population of 624,646, at the 2014 Census. The residents of the city are known as Cabindas or Fiotes. Cabinda, due to its proximity to rich oil reserves, serves as one of Angola's main oil ports. With a territorial area of 1,823 km², it is the most populous municipality in the province and the ninth most populous in the country. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Cabinda, Angola, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Angola. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Cabinda, Angola in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• Unitel North Submarine Cable (UNSC) (2023) — Unitel North Submarine Cable (UNSC) is a domestic submarine cable network within Angola, connecting 4 coastal and island locations including Cabinda, Cacongo, N'zeto, Soyo. The system provides essential telecommunications infrastructure for communities that would otherwise depend entirely on satellite or microwave links. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.