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Mbanza-Congo is home to the ancient ruins of the Kongo Kingdom, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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M'banza-Kongo

Mbanza Kongo, is the capital of Angola's northwestern Zaire Province with a population of 148,000 in 2014. Mbanza Kongo was the capital of the Kingdom of Kongo since its foundation before the arrival of the Portuguese in 1483 until the abolition of the kingdom in 1915, aside from a brief period of abandonment during civil wars in the 17th century.
In 2017, Mbanza Kongo was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

This description uses material from the Wikipedia article on M'banza-Kongo and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (view authors).