Angola, officially the Republic of Angola (Portuguese: República de Angola, Kikongo, Kimbundu, Umbundu: Repubilika ya Ngola), is a country in South Africa bordering Namibia to the South, Democratic Republic of the Congo to the North, and Zambia to the East; West Coast is in the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital. The province of Cabinda exclave has border with the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Portuguese were present in some-most coast-points of the region are Angola, from the 16th to the 19th century, interact in different ways by people who live there. In the 19th century, they slowly and tentatively began to establish themselves in the country.
Angola as a Portuguese colony, which included the area that is now not established before the end of the 19th century, and the “effective occupation”, as required by the Berlin Conference (1884) is achieved only with 1920s. Independence achieved in 1975, after a protracted war of liberation. After independence, Angola was the scene of intense civil war from 1975 to 2002. The country has reserves of minerals and petroleum, and the economy has grown an average double-digit rate since the 1990s, and especially since the end of the civil war. However, the level of human development is somewhat low, and the rate of death with life expectancy and the baby are both among the worst ranked in the world.