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{{Infobox settlement
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<!-- Basic info ---------------->| name = Balombo
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| settlement_type = [[Municipalities of Angola|Municipality]] and [[List of cities and towns in Angola|town]]
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| image_caption = Cutocota area, in Balombo municipality, 2015
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Angola
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| subdivision_name = {{flag|Angola}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Provinces of Angola|Province]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Benguela Province]]
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<!-- Population ----------------------->| population_as_of = 2014 Census
| population_footnotes = <ref name =Censo2014>{{cite web |url=https://www.ine.gov.ao/images/Populacao_Sociedade/PUBLICACAO_BENGUELA__2016.pdf |title=Resultados Definitivos Recenseamento Geral da População e Habitação – 2014 Província de Benguela |access-date=3 May 2020 |website=Instituto Nacional de Estatística, República de Angola |df=dmy |archive-date=1 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101044502/https://www.ine.gov.ao/images/Populacao_Sociedade/PUBLICACAO_BENGUELA__2016.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| population_total = 108965
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| timezone = [[West Africa Time|WAT]]
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'''Balombo''' is a town and [[Municipalities of Angola|municipality]] in [[Benguela Province]] in [[Angola]].
The municipality was created in 1954 and covers an area of 2,635 km². It is bordered to the north by the municipality of [[Cassongue]], to the east by the municipality of [[Londuimbali]], to the south by the municipalities of [[Ucuma]], [[Chinjenje]], and [[Ganda, Angola|Ganda]], and to the west by the municipality of [[Bocoio]].
The municipality consists of the central commune, corresponding to the town of Balombo, and the communes of [[Chindumbo]], [[Xangongo|Chingongo]], and Maca Mombolo.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.statoids.com/yao.html|title=City councils of Angola|publisher=Statoids|access-date=April 7, 2009}}</ref>
Its economic activity is based on agriculture.
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