Loango

Loango, a coast district of West Africa, stretching northwards from the mouth of the Congo to about $4^\{\backslash circ\}$ S. lat. By the Berlin conference of 1885 it was divided between the Congo Free State, Portugal, and France. The natural features and productions do not differ from those of the adjacent parts of Africa (see CONGO, GABOON). The inhabitants, who call themselves Bafioties, are fetich-worshippers. The town Loango, formerly a place of 15,000 people, consists now of only a few mercantile establishments.