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Muanda or
Moanda is a town lying on the
Atlantic OceanThe Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres , it covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface and about one-quarter of its water surface area. The first part of its name refers to the Atlas of Greek...
coast of the Democratic Republic of Congo at the mouth of the
Congo RiverThe Congo River is the largest river in Western Central Africa. Its overall length of 4,700 km makes it the second longest in Africa .-Background:...
. It is situated in
Kongo Central ProvinceKongo Central is a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At the time of the independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the province was part of the greater province of Leopoldville, along with the current provinces of Kinshasa, Kwango, Kwilu and Mai-ndombe...
, and has a population of 50,000. The town has an airport, IATA Code FZAG (5° 55' 51S 12° 21' 6E), and is known for its
beachA beach is a geological landform along the shoreline of a body of water. It usually consists of loose particles which are often composed of rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, or cobblestones...
es, and has a few limited tourist facilities, but tourism is incidental to the main economic activities of the town. The Mangrove Hotel built in the 1960s is run down.
Muanda is 8 km north-west of the small port of
BananaBanana is a small seaport in Kongo Central Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Atlantic coast. The port is situated in Banana Creek, an inlet about 1 km wide on the north bank of the Congo River's mouth, separated from the ocean by a spit of land 3 km long and 100 to 400 m wide....
in the mouth of the Congo.
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