Category: Africa

Vast region of Africa, which constitutes, by extension and development possibilities, the most important of the Portuguese possessions. Its name derives from the ancient indigenous kingdom of Angola, on the coast of which the city of Loanda was founded in 1576. Its geographical coordinates are: 4 ° 20 ‘and 18 ° 2’ lat. S.; 11 ° 40 ‘and 24 ° long. E. It extends for 1600 km. (including the territory…

Southern African state , washed west by the Atlantic Ocean. It borders to the North and NE with the Democratic Republic of Congo, to the East with Zambia, to the South with Namibia. It includes a coastal strip to the North of the mouth of the Congo River, the so-called Cabinda exclave, separated from the rest of the state by the interposition of a stretch of Congolese territory. Physical characteristics…

According to PROZIPCODES, Angola’s internal political life as well as international relations are strongly linked to oil revenues. While internally the proceeds of extraction have favored the development of an economic nationalism and of a bourgeois class linked to political power, in the international context the oil wealth has served to strengthen the image of Angola, favoring – after a first phase revolutionary – good international relations with all the…

HUMAN AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY South-western African state, washed by the Atlantic Ocean. The population, which has grown at a rapid pace (2.8 % per year in the period 2000-2005), in 2005 amounts, according to an estimate, to 15,941,000 residents, Of which just over 30 % live in urban areas. The only real city is the capital Luanda (2.75 million residents, according to 2005 estimates); notable was the modernization process that…

Population In 1998, according to one estimate, the population of the Angolan republic amounted to 12,092. 000 residents and it tended to grow at a very fast pace. The pressure on resources is very strong and the level of economic and social development is particularly low: it is estimated that more than 60 % of the population lives below the poverty line. The worsening of the social and economic crisis…

The changed international order that occurred with the end of the United States-Soviet Union bipolarity laid in Angola, as in many African countries governed by one-party regimes, the basis for a possible evolution in a democratic sense. The final outcome of this process depended on long-term factors linked to the legacy of colonial domination, the strategic role of the state within its regional context, the complex interaction between nationalistic movements,…

According to LOVERISTS, the coastal part of the indigenous state of Angola was occupied in 1574 by Paolo Diaz de Novaes, grandson of the famous Bartholomew, in the name of the king of Portugal. This occupation was a consequence of the ancient relations existing between the neighboring kingdom of Congo and the Portuguese: since Diaz, sent to settle, in 1558, a dispute that arose between the sovereign of Congo and…

According to LOCALBUSINESSEXPLORER, the Angolan population at the 1970 census was made up of 5,673,046 residents, Of which about 5.2% of European origin, with an annual increase rate that on average is 1.5% and therefore relatively low compared to neighboring countries. The average density is 4.6 residents per km 2 and reaches its maximum values ​​especially on the coast and inland exclusively along the Benguela railway line, in correspondence with…

The Angolan population is 9,385,725 residents (1988 estimate), of which about 30% live in urban areas (14% in 1970). The most important ethnic group is the Ovimbundu (38%), followed by the Kimbundu (19%), the Kongo (11%) and the Lunda (7%); the Portuguese presence has weakened considerably after independence, while the Cubans are more than 30,000. In Angola also live 100,000 refugees, mostly from Namibia. According to INTERSHIPPINGRATES, the capital Luanda…

Ancient Kingdom subject, with the name of Ngola, to Mwani Congo, to. it was discovered in its coastal part and together with the Congo river between 1482 and 1486 by Diogo Cão, squire of King John II of Portugal. He was followed by Gonçalo de Sousa, with an official mission and, therefore, the first missionaries. The baptism of the sovereign and the relative official conversion of the people, the erection…

According to GETZIPCODES, Angola includes a part of the great South African plateau and a part of the Longo basin. The plateau, consisting mainly of schists and granites, largely covered by a blanket of red laterite and, in eastern Angola, by arenaceous sedimentations, probably Triassic, and by Pleistocene and recent alluvial and eluvial deposits, lowers slowly towards the east, rising instead in the center up to 2620 m. (M. Moco).…