Angola - Tourism and Travel

The Republic of Angola is a country in South Central Africa, on the Atlantic Coast.

It has an area of 481,354 square miles (1,246,700 square kilometers).

The Democratic Republic of the Congo divides Cabinda, a small province of Angola in the north, from the rest of Angola.

Angola has a narrow coastal plain.

A large part of the country consists of high plateau, known as the Planalto de Bié.

There is desert in the southwest.

The Zambezi River runs through Angola.

The Okavango River, also known as the Cubango River, runs from the Planalto de Bié to the Okavango Delta in Botswana.

Angola has an equatorial climate in the north and a desert climate in the south.

The capital of Angola is Luanda.

18,498,000 people live in Angola.

37% of the population is Ovimbundu, 25% is Kimbundu and 13% is Bakongo.

Portuguese is the official language. Angola was once a Portuguese territory.

Other languages spoken in Angola include Kikongo, Kimbundu and Umbundu.

More than four fifths of the people depend on subsistence agriculture.

About ninety percent of export income comes from oil.

Angola has reserves of diamonds and other minerals.

The official currency of Angola is the kwanza, which is equal to 100 lwei.