Countries

Angola

Angola stretches along Africa's southwestern Atlantic coast, from the Namibian border north to the Congo River. Independent from Portugal since 1975, it emerged from a long civil war in 2002 and has grown into one of the continent's largest oil producers.

The curving palm-lined promenade of Luanda's bay, with the city's towers along the far shore

Baia de Luanda, on the Atlantic

Photo: vanessa lollipop, CC BY-SA 2.0

Red for the blood shed in the struggle for independence, black for Africa. The yellow cogwheel, machete and star stand for workers, farmers and progress, adopted in 1975.

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