Cabinda appears in the account as both a province and a principal city, linking a modest urban population to an increasingly important role in Angola’s oil economy. Oil extraction there helped reshape the country’s exports and attract foreign capital in the years before independence.

Provincial and Urban Profile

The 1970 census lists Cabinda among Angola’s main cities, with approximately 22,000 inhabitants. The account also identifies Cabinda as a province, distinguishing its wider economic importance from the scale of its urban population.

Oil and Economic Change

Oil accounted for 30 percent of Angola’s gross national product in 1973, the largest contribution among the listed export products. The account connects the rapid growth of foreign investment between 1969 and 1973, and the doubling of the value of Angolan exports over that period, especially to oil extraction in Cabinda.

Significance

Cabinda’s importance in this account rests on the contrast between its population and its economic reach: a city of about 22,000 is named within a province whose oil helped draw foreign capital and strengthen Angola’s export economy. The description of the province as African Kuwait condenses that resource-based significance.