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Tel: +244 222 442 818 / 331 862 / 447 253
Fax: +244 222 443 496
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Ministry of Tourism
Largo 4 de Fevereiro
Palácio de Vidro
CP 885
Tel: +244 222 310 624 / 338 770 / 338 211 /
222 331 323 / 338 625 / 372 750 / 338 737
minhotur@ebonet.net
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Ministry of Transport
Avenida 4 de Fevereiro 42 - 7th floor
Tel: +244 222 311 581 / 311 303
Fax: +244 222 311 303 / 395 933
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Ministry of Urbanism and Public Works
Rua Friedrich Engles 92 - 5th floor
Tel: +244 222 334 429
Fax: +244 222 398 431
www.minuc.gov.ao
Ministry of Telecommunications & Information Tech-
nologies
Avenida 4 de Fevereiro 42 – 8th floor
Tel: +244 222 337 779/ 337 777/ 310 164
Fax: +244 222 330 776
www.mtti.gov.ao
Located in the western region of Southern Africa,
between the 5th and 18th parallels of South latitude,
the territory of Angola includes a part of the basin
systems of the largest Western African river, Zaire or
Congo (4,000 km), and of the largest Eastern African
river Zambeze (2,680 km).
With a total area of 1,246,700 km2, Angola is the
23rd largest country in the world. The territory is over
twice the size of France and Great Britain, and al-
most twelve times larger than that of Portugal. The
country borders the Democratic Republic of Congo
in the North and Northeast, Zambia in the East, and
Namibia in the South, bathed by the Atlantic Ocean
in the West with 1,650 km of coastline.
Further north, the province of Cabinda forms an en-
clave separated geographically from the rest of the
territory by the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The territory can be divided into distinct geographi-
cal areas:
• the coastline
• transitional zones to the interior
• plateaus
• the Zaire basin
• the Zambeze and Cubango basin
The bastus occupy a little bit more than 60% of the
territory and are characterized by high lands in the
interior and reliefs of the Atlantic coast, descending
gradually towards the sea.
Approximately 65% of the territory are at an altitude
between 1,000 and 1,600 m, with the culminat-
ing points in the central region: the Mount Moco
(2,620m, province of Huambo) and the Mount Meco
(2,583m).
The main rivers of the country come from the central
plateau and run along three directions; the Atlantic
(E-W), South-Southeast and North. There are five
great basins which correspond to Congo (Zaire),
Kwanza, Cunene, Cubango and Queve (being the
Cubango basin the same as that of Zambeze).
The Zambezi River and several tributaries of the
Congo River have their sources in Angola. A large
number of rivers make their way westward to the
sea; they rise, mostly, in the mountain belt, and
are unimportant, the only two of any size being the
Kwanza and the Kunene, separately noticed.
The country is divided into an arid coastal strip
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
GEOGRAPHY