| Bailundo | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality and town |
| Pushpin Map: | Angola |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Angola |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Angola |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Huambo |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Total Km2: | 7161 |
| Population As Of: | 2014 Census |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 294494 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Coordinates: | -12.1958°N 15.8556°W |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Climate |
| Blank Info Sec1: | Cwb |
Bailundo (pre-1975 Vila Teixeira da Silva) is a municipality, with a population of 294,494 (2014), and a town, with a population of 70,481 (2014),[2] in the province of Huambo, Angola.
In the 1990s, Bailundo was the location of the headquarters of UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi.[3]
On January 19, 2008, a Gira Globo Aeronáutica Beechcraft B200 Super King Air on approach to Huambo Airport in Huambo crashed on a mountain near Bailundo, killing all 13 people on board.[4]
Located in Bailundo is the non-sovereign Kingdom of Bailundo. In 2021, Tchongolola Tchongonga was elected king of the Kingdom, to succeed Ekuikui IV who was deposed earlier in the same year.[5] Kings are considered to be significant community leaders, and play important roles in local matters.[6]
