Angola

Capital: Luanda Population: 18,498,000 Official Languages: Portuguese Time Zone: +1 Dialing Code: +244

Government: Unitary presidential republic Area: 1,246,700 km2 largest city: Luanda Currency : Kwanza (AOA) ISO 3166 code: AO

Basic Info

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola (Portuguese: República de Angola, pronounced: Kikongo, Kimbundu, Umbundu: Repubilika ya Ngola), is a country in Southern Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city. The exclave province of Cabinda has borders with the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Geography

At 481,321 square miles (1,246,620 km2), Angola is the world's twenty-third largest country (after Niger). It is comparable in size to Mali and is nearly twice the size of the US state of Texas, or five times the area of the United Kingdom. It lies mostly between latitudes 4° and 18°S, and longitudes 12° and 24°E.

Climate

Angola's average temperature on the coast is 60 °F (16 °C) in the winter and 70 °F (21 °C) in the summer. It has two seasons; dry season (May to October) and hot rainy season (November to April).

Religion

Angola is a majority Christian country. There exist about 1000 religious communities in the country. Roman Catholics constitute about half of the population. Other Christian denominations include Baptists, Methodists, Congregationalists, Lutherans, Reformed Churches and Adventists, as well as non-Protestant groups such as the Jehovah's Witnesses - all these denominations making up about a quarter of the population.

Since independence, numerous Pentecostal, Evangelical and other communities have sprung up, the most important being the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus, of Brazilian origin. Two syncretic "African Christian" churches exist, the Kimbanguists who have their origin in what is at present the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the locally evolved Tokoists. There is also a small muslim minority, consisting of sunnite immigrants from a diversity of African and other countries, who do not form a community. Few Angolans - mostly in remote rural societies - profess today traditional African religions, but traditional beliefs subsist among a substantial part of those who have become Christians,

Administrative divisions

Angola is divided into eighteen provinces (províncias) and 163 municipalities. The provinces are:

1 Bengo 2 Benguela 3 Bié 4 Cabinda 5 Cuando Cubango 6 Cuanza Norte 7 Cuanza Sul 8 Cunene 9 Huambo

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10 Huila 11 Luanda 12 Lunda Norte 13 Lunda Sul 14 Malanje 15 Moxico 16 Namibe 17 Uíge 18 Zaire

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