Portuguese is the official language, and the Kalandula Falls are among the largest by volume in Africa.
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Angola
Republic of Angola
Africa
ยท Middle Africa
0Population
1.25Mkmยฒ of land
$2.79KGDP / person
LuandaCapital
- ISO codes
- AO ยท AGO
- Density
- 26 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Portuguese
- Currency
- Angolan kwanza (AOA)
- Dial code
- +244
- Internet domain
- .ao
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 12.1830ยฐ S, 17.9840ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Angolan
- UN region
- Middle Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $88.82B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 4
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By the numbers
How Angola stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
45th
of 242 ยท 0.41% of world population
Land area
24th
of 242 ยท 0.83% of world land
GDP per person
177th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
180th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Angola
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 31,825,295 people, the 45th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.41 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 1,246,700 kmยฒ, making it the 24th largest country here - about 5.1 times the size of the United Kingdom.
Population density is about 26 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Luanda, at 8.84ยฐ S, 13.23ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 5,172,900.
Shares land borders with 4 countries: Congo, Dem. Rep. Congo, Zambia and Namibia.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Luanda.
The currency is the Angolan kwanza (AOA, symbol Kz).
The official language is Portuguese.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Luanda
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UTC+01:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Luanda
Luanda
8.8363ยฐ S, 13.2325ยฐ E
5.17M
2
Huambo
Huambo
12.7480ยฐ S, 15.7581ยฐ E
1.1M
3
Benguela
Benguela
12.5783ยฐ S, 13.4072ยฐ E
151.23K
4
Moรงรขmedes
Namibe
15.1900ยฐ S, 12.1600ยฐ E
132.9K
5
Malanje
Malanje
9.5400ยฐ S, 16.3400ยฐ E
125.86K
6
Lubango
Huรญla
14.9100ยฐ S, 13.4900ยฐ E
125.63K
7
Menongue
Cuando Cubango
14.6666ยฐ S, 17.7000ยฐ E
13.03K
Land neighbours
4 countries share a border with Angola.