Repeated housing blocks
Clusters of apartment buildings repeat across the city in a steady rhythm. The result is an unusually regular texture, and it is the first thing you notice on the map.
Tabula geographica minimalis · Angola
Kilamba — Kilamba Map Poster & Print
8.8486° S / 13.2750° E
A new planned city south of Luanda, laid out as a grid of uniform apartment blocks between wide avenues.
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- Sine signo aquatico
Una urbs, quinque animi
Kilamba omnibus stilis
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In pariete
Kilamba domi
Tabula
Kilamba Map Poster & Print
Kilamba is a planned satellite city in the Luanda area of Angola, built from the late 2000s on open land south of the capital. From above it looks unlike almost anywhere else in the region. Row after row of mid-rise apartment blocks stand in regular clusters, separated by broad avenues, with schools and service buildings placed at intervals.
The project was built by a Chinese state-owned construction company as part of a large national housing programme. In its early years it was widely reported to be largely empty because the apartments were too expensive for most buyers. After prices were lowered, residents moved in, and it is now a lived-in city.
A Kilamba map poster shows the city's defining quality, which is repetition. The matching blocks, straight avenues and neat boundaries create a pattern that reads almost like woven cloth or an architectural drawing. In black and white, that uniformity becomes the point, and the contrast with the looser neighbourhoods at its edges makes the design striking.
- Incolae
- 237,528
- Coordinatae
- 8.8486° S / 13.2750° E
- Altitudo
- 78 m
- Zona horaria
- Luanda
- Regio
- Kilamba, Angola
Wide avenues
Broad main roads divide the city into large sectors. They frame the housing clusters and give the whole plan a clear, easily readable structure.
Planned boundary
The city ends in crisp edges where the planned layout meets the surrounding land. This sharp outline sets Kilamba apart from the looser growth nearby.
Tuam fac
Kilamba: partem tuam in forma pone
Adde diem, nomen vel versum tuum; muta stilum, magnitudinem vel directionem.
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Cur Kilamba
Tabula quae aliquid significat
For residents, Kilamba stands for a first apartment, a new neighbourhood or a fresh start near Luanda, and a map fixes that moment. Its ordered, graphic layout also appeals to anyone interested in architecture and urban planning.
You can personalise the title and subtitle, add a moving-in date or a block name, and choose one of five styles. Printed posters on matte paper ship from partners in more than 30 countries, or you can download six HD sizes as PNG and PDF for $9.
Eme tabulam KilambaQuid in fasciculis HD insit300 DPISine signo aquaticoPNG + PDF
| Magnitudo impressionis | Resolutio | Fasciculi |
|---|---|---|
| 30 × 40 cm11.8 × 15.7″ | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3)11.7 × 16.5″ | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2)16.5 × 23.4″ | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm18 × 24″ | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm19.7 × 27.6″ | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm24 × 36″ | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
Comparationis causa, specimen gratuitum 900 px latum est, signo aquatico notatum et ad spectandum in quadris lucidis destinatum. Fasciculi HD usque ad octiens maiorem resolutionem in utramque partem habent et tota tabulae magnitudine pure imprimuntur.
Kilamba Map Poster & Print — FAQ
Quomodo tabulam Kilamba emere possum?
Elige formam in summa pagina, deinde selige Tabulam Typis Impressam — magnitudinem et, si vis, compagem — vel Fasciculos Digitales HD. Emptio uno gradu conficitur, et pagina emptionis tuae statim renovatur ubi primum solutio confecta est.
Qualis est tabula Kilamba typis impressa?
In charta opaca praestanti 200 gsm typis imprimitur, una ex sex magnitudinibus, a 30 × 40 cm usque ad 24 × 36″. Tabulae typis impressae incipiunt a $39, missione inclusa.
Possumne tabulam Kilamba compagine inclusam emere?
Ita. Elige compagem ex solido ligno, colore nigro, albo, quercu naturali vel ligno obscuro. Vitro infrangibili instructa venit et ad suspendendum parata est. Tabulae compagine inclusae incipiunt a $99, missione inclusa.
Quantum temporis missio sumit, et quanti constat?
Missio ubique terrarum gratuita est. Quodque propositum a socio typographico nostro proximo, in plus quam 30 terris, imprimitur et plerumque intra 3–7 dies negotiales advenit. Condicionem et vestigium in sectione «Mea mandata» sequi potes. In paucis terris 2–5 hebdomades requiruntur, et ubi nondum mittimus, situs te ante solutionem monet.
Quid si tabula mea laesa pervenit?
Mitte nobis imaginem intra 14 dies post missionem acceptam, et eam gratis iterum imprimemus vel pecuniam tibi reddemus.
Possumne nomina nostra vel diem tabulae Kilamba addere?
Ita. In instrumento huius paginae, titulum, subtitulum et lineam coordinatarum ad libitum muta, et formam ac magnitudinem elige. Emptiones typis impressae, compagine inclusae et digitales omnes exacte figuram tuam adhibent.
Quid cum fasciculis digitalibus HD accipio?
Pro $9 accipis fasciculos PNG 300 DPI et PDF ad imprimendum paratos in omnibus sex magnitudinibus, sine nota aquatica, ut ubique imprimere possis. Nondum certus es? Prius specimen gratuitum cum nota aquatica demitte.