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title: "Angola — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "Angola: capital Luanda, area 1,246,700 km², population 39,040,039 (2025), currency Angolan kwanza. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/angola/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Angola

**Angola: Capital Luanda**

1,246,700 km² · 39,040,039 people (2025) · Angolan kwanza

The Atlantic coast runs about 1,600 km. Angola sits on the southern edge of the Congo rainforest and the northern edge of the Namib, so it crosses from jungle to desert in a single north-south drive. Cabinda, one of its provinces, is separated from the rest of the country by a strip of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

## The facts

- **Capital:** Luanda
- **Area:** 1,246,700 km² — 481,353 sq mi
- **Population:** 39,040,039 (2025)
- **Density:** 31.3 people per km²
- **Currency:** Angolan kwanza (AOA, Kz)
- **Official language:** Portuguese
- **Time zone:** UTC+01:00
- **Calling code:** +244
- **Drives on the:** right
- **ISO codes:** AO · AGO
- **Continent:** Africa

## How it compares

- **By area:** 23 of 200
- **By population:** 39 of 200

> Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.

## Countries of a similar size

| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chad | 1,284,000 | 21,003,705 |
| Niger | 1,267,000 | 27,917,831 |
| Angola ← | 1,246,700 | 39,040,039 |
| Mali | 1,240,192 | 25,198,821 |
| South Africa | 1,219,090 | 64,747,319 |

## Common questions

### What is the capital of Angola?

Luanda

### What currency does Angola use?

The Angolan kwanza (AOA).

### How big is Angola?

1,246,700 km², or 481,353 square miles — 23 of 200 by area.

### Which side of the road does Angola drive on?

The right.

## Related pages

- [Chad](https://atoneplace.net/country/chad/)
- [Niger](https://atoneplace.net/country/niger/)
- [Mali](https://atoneplace.net/country/mali/)
- [South Africa](https://atoneplace.net/country/south-africa/)
- [Nigeria](https://atoneplace.net/country/nigeria/)
- [Ethiopia](https://atoneplace.net/country/ethiopia/)
- [Egypt](https://atoneplace.net/country/egypt/)
- [Democratic Republic of the Congo](https://atoneplace.net/country/democratic-republic-of-the-congo/)
- [Tanzania](https://atoneplace.net/country/tanzania/)
- [South Africa](https://atoneplace.net/country/south-africa/)
- [Kenya](https://atoneplace.net/country/kenya/)
- [Sudan](https://atoneplace.net/country/sudan/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]