Angola
Angola (officially Republic of Angola) is a country in Middle Africa, with its capital at Luanda, and is home to roughly 37.9M people.
Portuguese is the official language; the currency in circulation is Angolan kwanza (Kz); people from here are called Angolan.
- »Portuguese is the official language and is spoken by most of the population, a legacy of nearly 400 years of colonial rule.
Angola touches four neighbours: DR Congo to the northeast, Namibia to the south, Republic of the Congo to the north and Zambia to the east. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Luanda was founded by the Portuguese in 1576 and became the hub of the Atlantic slave trade to Brazil. Oil money later made it, for several years running, the most expensive city in the world for expatriates.
1,249,259 km² (482,341 sq mi), 22nd largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Mali.
Population 37,885,849, 40th of 198 on file. That averages 30 per km² (79 per sq mi).
The machete and cogwheel echo the Soviet hammer and sickle, marking the movement that won independence from Portugal in 1975. The half cogwheel stands for industry, the machete for agriculture.