Editing Cabinda Province (section)

=== Administrative merger with Angola ===
By the mid-1920s, the borders of Angola had been finally established in negotiations with the neighboring colonial powers. From there on Angola and Cabinda were treated distinctively under the Portuguese constitution of 1933 until 15 January 1975 under the Alvor Agreement.
[[File:Cabinda map-en.svg|thumb|250px]]
[[File:Cabinda2025OSM.png|thumb|250px|Detailed map of Cabinda Province]]
The Portuguese constitution of 1933 distinguished between the colony of Angola and the protectorate of Cabinda, but in 1956, the administration of Cabinda was transferred to the governor-general of Angola. The legal distinction of Cabinda's status from that of Angola was also expressed in the Portuguese constitution of 1971.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Portugal_2005.pdf |title=Portugal's Constitution of 1976 with Amendments through 2005 |access-date=7 April 2019 |archive-date=7 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407092042/https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Portugal_2005.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> Yet, when Angola was declared an "[[overseas province]]" (Província Ultramarina) within the empire of Portugal in 1951, Cabinda was treated as an ordinary district of Angola. In 1972, the name of Angola was changed to "State of Angola".

Under Portuguese rule, Cabinda was an important agricultural and forestry center, and in 1967, it discovered huge [[offshore (hydrocarbons)|offshore]] oil fields. Oil, timber, and [[Cocoa bean|cocoa]] had been its main exports until then. The town of Cabinda, the capital of the territory, was a Portuguese administrative and services center with a [[port]] and airfield. The beaches of Cabinda were popular with Portuguese Angolans.