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President:José Eduardo dos Santos
Total area:1,246,699 sq km
Language:Portuguese
Population (2010est):13,068,161
Capital and largest city:Luanda, 2,297,200
Other large cities:Huambo,Lubango
religion:Christian,
Monetary unit:kwanza

Geography
Angola, extends for more than 1,609 km along the South Atlantic in southwest Africa
Angola bordered by The Democratic Republic of the Congo  to the north and the Republic of Congo to the east and Namibia is to the south Zambia is to the west
A plateau averaging 6,000 ft  above sea level rises abruptly from the coastal lowlands. Nearly all the land is desert or savanna, with hardwood forests in the northeast
Government
Angola underwent a transition from a one-party socialist state to a nominally multiparty democracy in 1992
History
The original inhabitants of Angola are thought to have been Khoisan speakers. After 1000, large numbers of Bantu speakers migrated to the region and became the dominant group. Angola
, Angola became a link in trade with India and Southeast Asia. Later it was a major source of slaves for Portugal's New World colony of Brazil. Development of the interior began after the Berlin Conference in 1885 fixed the colony's borders, and British and Portuguese investment fostered mining, railways, and agriculture