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Angola
Location marker · geographic overview
12.5° S / 18.5° ETHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Luanda
- Population
- 37,885,849 2024
- Area
- 1,246,700 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- Portuguese
- Currency
- Angolan kwanza (AOA)
- Geography
- Coastal country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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Discover Angola
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Angola
Angola is a beautiful nation in Central Africa endowed with lovely waterfalls, rivers, national parks, and coastlines. There is plenty to do and see.
Landscape & landmarks
In Luanda: the Mussulo island for clean tropical beaches and water sports, the Benfica Market for Kwanza River.Read the see section ↗
Food & everyday culture
Angolan cuisine is varied and tasty, with local dishes based mainly on fish, cassava products and spicy stews.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-27. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
A little more to discover +
- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Middle Africa
- Calling code
- +244
- Internet domain
- .ao
- Land border codes
- COG, COD, ZMB, NAM
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .ao. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.