ANGOLA COUNTRY GUIDE Editorial record: 26 October 2026 Routes: /atlas/angola and /facts/ao READING AND EDITORIAL REFERENCES Britannica: Angola — geography, languages, history, economy and society. https://www.britannica.com/place/Angola Government of Angola: current province directory — 21 provinces, including Icolo e Bengo, Moxico Leste, Cuando and Cubango. Older sources can show 18. https://governo.gov.ao/angola/provincias Constitution of Angola (2010), especially Articles 19, 109, 113 and 141: official language, presidential selection, terms and National Assembly. https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Angola_2010 UNESCO: Mbanza Kongo, Vestiges of the Capital of the former Kingdom of Kongo; World Heritage inscription in 2017. https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1511/ OPEC: historical membership — Angola joined in 2007 and withdrew effective 1 January 2024, following its December 2023 announcement. https://www.opec.org/member-countries.html African Parks: Iona National Park — desert landscapes and conservation. https://www.africanparks.org/the-parks/iona World Bank: Angola country overview — oil dependence and diversification. https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/angola/overview Official travel advice, including landmine and access information: https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/angola MAP DATA AND LIMITATIONS National land: Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m Admin 0 Countries, Angola feature (ADM0_A3 = AGO). Public domain. Includes Cabinda and the main territory. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/ The retained outline is scripts/angola-outline-source.geojson. It is a national outline, not a map of the old 18 or current 21 provinces. Small islands and detailed shorelines may be generalised at this scale. Twelve city centres are manually curated and retained, with their prompts and notes, in scripts/angola-map-places.json. They are approximate settlement locations, not municipal boundaries, population rankings or geocoding results. Reference place names and coordinates can be compared with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luanda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinda_(city) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbanza-Kongo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malanje https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huambo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuito https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benguela https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobito https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubango https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo%C3%A7%C3%A2medes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luena,_Angola Cuito/Kuito and Moçâmedes/Namibe are explained in the reveal notes. Ten heritage and landscape locations, including a representative historic Benguela city-centre pin, are retained in src/lib/country-sights/angola.json. National park pins are representative landscape locations, not park gates. Landscape and monument pins are not routes, access instructions or assurances of current opening. The Kalandula pin is on the Lucala River; Mbanza Kongo is in northern Angola. Rebuild offline: node scripts/build-angola-map.mjs PHOTOGRAPHS All ten topic photographs already exist in public/images/facts-africa/ao/. They retain the source links and licences in src/lib/african-facts-heroes.json. The banner reuses the Miradouro da Lua photograph (Paulo César Santos, CC0). The food photo shows people with collected edible macossos caterpillars; it does not depict a prepared muamba or calulu dish. Alt text in the new reading describes what is visible. geography: /images/facts-africa/ao/geography.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Namibe_Waterfront_(19432713306).jpg David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons history: /images/facts-africa/ao/history.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luanda-SMiguelFort2.jpg Erik Cleves Kristensen, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons language: /images/facts-africa/ao/language.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lyceum_Salvador_Correia_in_Luanda,_Angola_(cropped).jpg Felipe Miguel from Curitiba, Brazil, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons culture: /images/facts-africa/ao/culture.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Traditional_Dancers_(19300973109).jpg David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons economy: /images/facts-africa/ao/economy.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zona_do_porto_de_Luanda.JPG Paulo César Santos, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons politics: /images/facts-africa/ao/politics.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:National_Assembly_Building_(19898889148).jpg David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons nature: /images/facts-africa/ao/nature.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kwanza_River_and_bordering_savannah.jpg Nielsen SV, Conradie W, Ceríaco LMP, Bauer AM, Heinicke MP, Stanley EL, Blackburn DC, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons food: /images/facts-africa/ao/food.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Macossos.JPG Lskrew, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons landmarks: /images/facts-africa/ao/landmarks.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miradouro_da_Lua_(Angola).jpg Paulo César Santos, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons people: /images/facts-africa/ao/people.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2015_near_the_railway_station_in_Benguela_Angola_19625164010.jpg David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons