Angola

In the southwest of the Central Africa, at coast of Atlantic ocean is a little to the south of equator Angola, till 1975 were the Portuguese colony is had. Portuguese remains a country official language.

The terrain Bulk (the square 1246,7  thousand both  sq. km) represents extensive plateau in altitude more 1000  m above sea level. Only along 1500-kilometre coast of ocean it is drawn down narrow (from 50 to 100  km) a lowland strip. The water front is poorly decomposed and generated, on the one hand, by earth crust fractures, and with other - act of the Bengalese sea current which has formed silts in the form of scythes parallel a shore. The highest part of plateau - western (the best point - mount Moko - 2610 . The plateau is an interstream of inflows of Congo. The main rivers: Zambezi with its inflows, Cuanza, Cubango, Cunene, Kasai, Kwango, etc.

The Climate hot, in the country equatorial, monsoonal, on ïîáåðåæüå  tropical passatnyj. Though wet southwest winds all year long fan shores of Angola, Bengalese flow chills air, therefore rains at coast happen seldom (almost exclusively in March-April). At coast it is not enough deposits: to 800  mm in the north, 240-350  mm in the central part and only 43 mm on a southern section. For winter months constant fogs are characteristic. Monthly average temperatures of air at ocean coasts from 23-25  °C to 28-30  °C, that is a little bit more cool, than in intrinsic regions, where temperatures would be still above, if the altitude did not moderate heat (to 20-26  °C). Deposits in intrinsic regions exceed 1000-1500  mm a year (in the south - at boundary line with Namibia - 600-800  the mm), a season of rains proceeds from October-November till April-May.

The Vegetation of neritic lowland variates from grassy and kustarnikovyh savannahs with separate deciduous trees (baobabs especially deposit) in the north to semi-deserts with prickly bushes and deserts in the extreme south. In intrinsic regions tropical light forests and dry savannovye the woods dumping leafage during a dry season predominate. Along the rivers there are wet tropical woods. The fauna is rich enough: for savannahs large mammals are characteristic: elephants, rhinoceroses, water buffaloes, borodavochniki, zebras, antelopes - a canna, a gnu, a koodoo and others, lions, leopards, cheetahs. Also such original animals as pangolin which body is entirely coated with cornual guards and it is similar to a huge spruce cone, or trubkozub - the digging entomophagous animal, bearing a faint resemblance to a pig Here live. In woods it is a lot of monkeys, on the rivers there live river horses. Animals in national parks - Kisama, Lvando, Milando, the Cameo, Mupa, Bikuar, Mosamedish are especially numerous.

The Population of Angola (nearby 10,9  million persons) compound in the core the people of language bunch to a bow, in the core Angolans are occupied by farming agriculture and traditional trades. Wood figurines, the colourful ritual masks, painted arundinaceous and prutjanye baskets, a calabash use popularity. Dancing and musical art is educed.

Capital Luanda - the largest city of Angola. The city is divided on two parts: the inferior city on the flat I protect fakes and overhead, picturesquely stretched on a high neritic terrace. Here it is a lot of ancient monuments - a fort the Dignity-Migel of XVI century, a palace - the former residence of the governor-general, a palace of an archbishop and a cathedral church. Other large cities - Uizhe, Cabinda, Huambo, Lobito, Mosamedish.