Largest World Countries: angola
Angola officially the Republic of Angola Portuguese Rep blica de Angola pronounced 160 Kongo Repubilika ya Ngola is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north and Zambia on the east its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean The exclave province of Cabinda has a border with the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo Angola was a Portuguese overseas territory from the 16th century to 1975 After independence Angola was the scene of an intense civil war from 1975 to 2002 The country is the second-largest petroleum and diamond producer in sub-Saharan Africa however its life expectancy and infant mortality rates are both among the worst ranked in the world About 65 of Angola's oil comes from that region Khoisan hunter-gatherers are some of the earliest known modern human inhabitants of the area They were largely replaced by Bantu tribes during the Bantu migrations…Read More about angola at WikiPedia
Latest angola Frequently Asked Questions:
What is the historical significance of Angola? Also 5 reasons why Angola is important. I have to turn this in on Monday so please hurry.
Answer:Angola is one of the fastest growing economies in Africa and the World. Also, Angola had one of the largest slave trading posts in the world, Angola had more slaves taken from it than any other places except Nigeria. Also, Angola has many diamonds and many of the worlds diamonds come from Angola. There was a Civil War that started in the 1970's and ended just a few years ago and it was a fight over land.
What I've found is that Angola is 60% native-Portuguese speaking. How did this happen? How did Angola become a native-Portuguese speaking country while in the rest of Africa the colonial languages are spoken as second and third languages and people were able to keep their native african languages?
Answer:The Portuguese language, from the 1400's to the 1600's was what english is today, the "lingua franca" of the world, because the portuguese were the first europeans to reach Africa, Brazil and all of Asia all the way to Japan. So when the 19th century colonization started, the portuguese language and the portuguese themselves were already in Africa for 400 years...
I heard that lots of people went to angola for the cup of nations. How is the country doing so far? is there any developments going on there or is it still a poor country? How were the conditions there? Was angola ready to recieve tourist or not?
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I live in Maryland, in the U.S. and I have a friend living in Luanda, Angola and we want to start an import/export business where I ship them digital cameras from the U.S. and they sell them there. How much will this cost and what is the best way to go about shipping the cameras?
Answer:I used to ship a lot of ebay items international. USPS.com has your answers.
I wanna no the teams that have qualified for Angola 2010 African Cup of Nations and how does it work.
Answer:16 teams qualified..........................