Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west shore of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) nation in both total area and also population (behind Brazil), as well as is the seventh-largest country in Africa. It is bordered by Namibia to the south, the DR Congo to the north, Zambia to the eastern, as well as the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Angola has an exclave district, the district of Cabinda, that borders the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The capital as well as most inhabited city is Luanda.

Angola has actually been inhabited because the Paleolithic Age. Its formation as a nation-state originates from Portuguese colonisation, which originally started with seaside settlements and also trading articles established in the 16th century. In the 19th century, European inhabitants gradually began to develop themselves in the inside. The Portuguese swarm that came to be Angola did not have its present borders until the early 20th century, owing to resistance by native groups such as the Cuamato, the Kwanyama as well as the Mbunda.

After a protracted anti-colonial struggle, Angola accomplished self-reliance in 1975 as a Marxist– Leninist one-party Republic. The nation came down into a devastating civil war the same year, between the judgment People’s Movement for the Freedom of Angola (MPLA), backed by the Soviet Union and also Cuba, the anarchical anti-communist National Union for the Overall Freedom of Angola (UNITA), supported by the United States and South Africa, and also the militant organisation National Freedom Front of Angola (FNLA), backed by the Autonomous Republic of the Congo. The country has been governed by MPLA ever since its self-reliance in 1975. Complying with the end of the battle in 2002, Angola became a reasonably secure unitary, presidential constitutional republic.