Map of Angola

Angola is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 12.5° S, 18.5° E. It shares land borders with 4 countries — DR Congo, Namibia, Republic of the Congo and Zambia — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Angola is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Angola shares land frontiers with the following 4 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Angola covers about 1,246,700 km² (481,354 sq mi). That makes it the 22nd-largest country in the world by area and the 7th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 47 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 36,170,961, the 41st-largest in the world and the 12th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 2.5% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Angola has an average population density of about 29 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 12th by population and 7th by area.

The seat of government is Luanda, and the official currency is the Angolan kwanza (AOA, Kz), and the main official language is Portuguese. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Angola carries the ISO country codes AO and AGO, dials on the international calling code +244 and uses the .ao internet domain.

Angola shares its land borders with 4 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are DR Congo (capital Kinshasa, about 112,832,000 people), Zambia (capital Lusaka, about 19,693,423 people), Republic of the Congo (capital Brazzaville, about 6,142,180 people) and Namibia (capital Windhoek, about 3,022,401 people).

By area, Angola is larger than 3 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 12.5° S, 18.5° E and opens at zoom level 4, framing Angola within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Luanda. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Angola lies about 1,388 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Angola keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Angolan kwanza (AOA, Kz).

The official language is Portuguese, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +244 and websites commonly use the .ao internet domain.

In short, Angola is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 4 countries. Its capital is Luanda. Angola has a population of about 36,170,961 and covers around 1,246,700 km² (481,354 sq mi), ranking it 41st in the world by population and 22nd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Angola.

The flag of Angola features two equal horizontal bands of red and black, with a yellow emblem at its centre. This emblem consists of a five-pointed star within the hoist-side facing half of a cogwheel that is crossed on its lower end by a machete.

The flag of Angola is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.