Angola

Angola

Angola ranks 108th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Trinidad and Tobago, Malta, and Mongolia. Memorable people born in present day Angola include José Eduardo dos Santos, João Lourenço, and Agostinho Neto. Memorable people who died in Angola include Jonas Savimbi, Afonso I of Kongo, and Alexandre do Nascimento. Angola has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and religious figures.

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and population and is the seventh-largest country in Africa. It is bordered by Namibia to the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Zambia to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Angola has an exclave province, the province of Cabinda, that borders the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The capital and most populous city is Luanda. Read more on Wikipedia