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As a top team in Africa, it is a regular competitor at the Summer Olympic Games and the FIBA World Cup. Angola is home to one of Africa's first competitive leagues. [209] Bruno Fernando, a player for the Atlanta Hawks, is the only current NBA player from Angola. [citation needed] In football, Angola hosted the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations.
Angola is located on the western Atlantic Coast of Southern Africa between Namibia and the Republic of the Congo. It also is bordered by the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia to the east. The country consists of a sparsely watered and somewhat sterile coastal plain extending inland for a distance varying from 50 to 160 km (31 to 99 mi).
The location of Angola An enlargeable relief map of the Republic of Angola. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Angola: . Angola – country in southern Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city.
The Mediterranean Sea, between Africa and Europe The Atlantic Ocean around the plate boundaries (text is in Finnish). The African and European mainlands are non-contiguous, and the delineation between these continents is thus merely a question of which islands are to be associated with which continent.
South Africa: Pretoria (administrative capital), Cape Town (legislative capital), Bloemfontein, (judicial capital) South Africa Suid-Afrika iNingizimu Afrika uMzantsi Afrika Afrika-Borwa Afrika Borwa Aforika Borwa Afurika Tshipembe Afrika Dzonga iNingizimu Afrika iSewula Afrika: Pretoria, Cape Town Pretoria, Kaapstad iPitoli, iKapa iPitoli ...
The Maghreb is a region of northwest Africa encompassing the coastlands and Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. The Sahara Desert is the massive sparsely populated region in North Africa that contains the world's largest hot deserts; Sub-Saharan Africa is the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara.
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Located on Angola's northern Atlantic coast, Luanda is Angola's administrative centre, its chief seaport, and also the capital of the Luanda Province. Luanda and its metropolitan area is the most populous Portuguese-speaking capital city in the world and the most populous Lusophone city outside Brazil. In 2020 the population reached more than 8 ...