Pointe-Noire
Republic of the Congo · Africa
About Pointe-Noire
Pointe-Noire is the second largest city and main economic centre in the Republic of the Congo, with a population of 1,420,612 inhabitants in 2023. Since the 2002 constitution, it is also an autonomous department and a commune; before this date it was the capital of the Kouilou region (now a separate department). It is situated on a headland between Pointe-Noire Bay and the Atlantic Ocean and is located near the border with Angola.
The coat of arms of the city of Pointe-Noire can be described as, "Gold at the point of sand accompanied by two silver oars, the handle gules, laid in chevron poured, the tip and oars moving from a sea of azure wavy three streams of silver"
Pointe-Noire is a commune divided into six urban boroughs (arrondissements):
Lumumba, the oldest area, administrative and commercial centre
Pointe-Noire is also a department which includes the area of the commune and, since 2011, the district of Tchiamba-Nzassi, formerly part of the Kouilou department.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA. Photography via Wikimedia Commons.