Angola Overview Nations // Africa



OVERVIEW Angola, on the west coast of southern Africa, is bordered to the south by Namibia, east by Zambia, north by the Democratic Republic of the Congo and west by the Atlantic Ocean. Angola also includes the small noncontiguous enclave of Cabinda, which is bordered to the north by the Congo Republic and to the south by a strip of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Angola became independent from Portugal in 1975. Thereafter, it experienced protracted external conflict that also...

 

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