Luanda, Angola

Luanda, Angola is a submarine cable landing point in Angola (coordinates -8.8127°, 13.2350°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Angola's international connectivity infrastructure.

Luanda is the capital and largest city of Angola. It is Angola's primary port, and its major industrial, cultural and urban centre. Located on Angola's northern Atlantic coast, Luanda is Angola's administrative centre, its chief seaport, and also the capital of the Luanda Province. Luanda and its metropolitan area is the most populous Portuguese-speaking national capital in the world and the most populous Lusophone city outside Brazil. In 2024 the population reached more than 8.8 million inhabitants. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Luanda, Angola, international traffic can reach 33 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Bahrain, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Dem. Rep., Djibouti, Egypt, France, Gabon and 25 more. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

GeoCables recorded 2 monitoring events on cables serving Luanda, Angola in the past 90 days. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• 2Africa (2024) — 2Africa is a major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 34 countries across West Africa, Middle East, Southern Africa. With 50 landing points — including Abidjan, Abu Dhabi, Accra, Al Faw, Al Khobar, and 45 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. Read more →

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