Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Luanda
- Region
- Africa, Middle Africa
- Population
- 39,040,039 (2025)
- Area
- 1,246,700 km²
- Currency
- Angolan kwanza (AOA)
- Languages
- Portuguese
- Calling code
- +244
- Internet domain
- .ao
- ISO codes
- AO, AGO, 024
- Time zone
- UTC+1:00
- United Nations
- Member state
Land and position
Angola covers about 1,246,700 square kilometres. By area it ranks 24th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Niger and a little larger than Mali. It shares a land border with 4 neighbours: DR Congo, Congo, Namibia, Zambia. Its centre lies at about 12° south, 18° east, in the southern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 39 million people live in Angola (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 39th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.48 percent of the world's people. On average there are 31 people to each square kilometre. About 71 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 65 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Portuguese. A person from Angola is called Angolan.
Money and economy
The currency is the Angolan kwanza (code AOA, symbol Kz). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 122 billion (2025), which is about US$ 3,129 for each person (2025).
Time
Angola uses one time zone, UTC+1:00 (Africa/Luanda). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Luanda | 2,776,168 |
| Mulenvos | 882,014 |
| Viana | 865,863 |
| Kikolo | 728,205 |
| Maianga | 727,681 |
| Camama | 667,094 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Middle Africa
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, South Sudan, São Tomé and Príncipe. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.