page_title: Luanda
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Luanda / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Lyceum Salvador Correia in Luanda, Angola. Português: Liceu Salvador Correia, em Luanda, em Angola.
context_page_description: Luanda, is the capital and largest city in 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 capital city in the world, with over 8 million inhabitants in 2019.
  Among the oldest colonial cities of Africa, it was founded in January 1576 as São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda by Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais. The city served as the centre of the slave trade to Brazil before its prohibition. At the start of the Angolan Civil War in 1975, most of the white Portuguese left as refugees, principally for Portugal. Luanda's population increased greatly from refugees fleeing the war, but its infrastructure was inadequate to handle the increase. This also caused the exacerbation of slums, or musseques, around Luanda. The city is undergoing a major reconstruction, with many large developments taking place that will alter its cityscape significantly.
context_section_description: International schools:
  Escola Portuguesa de Luanda
  Colégio Português de Luanda
  Colégio São Francisco de Assis
  Luanda International School
  English School Community of Luanda
caption: Mutu-ya Kevela Prep. School.
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