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República de Angola OTL equivalent: Angola | ||||||
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| Anthem: Angola Avante (English: "Onwards Angola") |
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 Map and location of Angola (green)
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| Capital | Luanda | |||||
| Demonym | Angolan | |||||
| Government | Unitary presidential republic | |||||
| - | President | TBD | ||||
| - | Vice President | TBD | ||||
| Legislature | National Assembly | |||||
| Population | ||||||
| - | 2022 estimate | 33,086,278 (42nd) | ||||
| Date formats | dd/mm/yyyy | |||||
| Drives on the | right | |||||
| Calling code | +244 | |||||
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola (Portuguese: República de Angola), is a country located on the west coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) country in both total area and population (behind Brazil in both cases), and is the seventh-largest country in Africa. It is bordered by Namibia to the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Zambia to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Angola has an exclave province, the province of Cabinda, that borders the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The capital and most populous city is Luanda.
Angola has been inhabited since the Paleolithic Age. Its formation as a nation-state originates from Portuguese colonisation, which initially began with coastal settlements and trading posts founded in the 16th century. In the 19th century, European settlers gradually began to establish themselves in the interior. The Portuguese colony that became Angola did not have its present borders until the early 20th century, owing to resistance by native groups such as the Cuamato, the Kwanyama and the Mbunda.
After a protracted anti-colonial struggle, Angola achieved independence in 1975 as a Marxist–Leninist one-party Republic. The country descended into a devastating civil war the same year, between the ruling People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), backed by the Soviet Union and Cuba (until 1991), the insurgent National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), an originally Maoist and later anti-communist group supported by the United States and South Africa, and the militant organization National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA), backed by the Zaire. The country has been governed by MPLA from 1975 until UNITA's victory in the civil war in UNITA's victory in 1992 general elections. Following the end of the war in 1992, Angola emerged as a relatively stable unitary, presidential constitutional republic.
Angola has vast mineral and petroleum reserves, and its economy is among the fastest-growing in the world, especially since the end of the civil war; however, economic growth is highly uneven, with most of the nation's wealth concentrated in a disproportionately small part of the population; the largest investment and trade partners are China and the United States. The standard of living remains low for most Angolans; life expectancy is among the lowest in the world, while infant mortality is among the highest. Since ____ after Savimbi's death, the government of Adalberto Costa Júnior has made fighting corruption its flagship, so much so that many individuals of the previous government are either jailed or awaiting trial. Whilst this effort has been recognised by foreign diplomats to be legitimate, some skeptics see the actions as being politically motivated.
Etymology[]
The name Angola comes from the Portuguese colonial name Reino de Angola ('Kingdom of Angola'), which appeared as early as Paulo Dias de Novais's 1571 charter. The toponym was derived by the Portuguese from the title ngola held by the kings of Ndongo and Matamba. Ndongo in the highlands, between the Kwanza and Lucala Rivers, was nominally a possession of the Kingdom of Kongo, but was seeking greater independence in the 16th century.
Media[]
At least five terrestrial television channels operate in the country. TPA started a second channel following the UNITA victory. In 2008, two commercial television channels started broadcasting.