Factsheet: Angola
Capital:
Luanda, largest city
and main port
Area: 1,246,700 square km
Languages: Portuguese (official), Kimbundu, Umbundu, Kongo, Chokwe
Currency: Kwanza (KZR)
Total plant species: 5,185
Total plant endemics: 1,260
Total RDL plants: no information available
Focal RDL institutions: LUAI, PRE
Number of Protected Areas: six National Parks, other informal reserves
(such as strict, forest, partial, regional, and hunting reserves), and several
proposed protected areas.
Population: 12,356,900 Growth Rate: 2.9% Density: 9.4
people/square km
Phytogeography: Predominantly Zambezian, with longitudinal bands of Kalahari–Highveld and
Karoo–Namib in the southwest. Guinea– Congolian pockets interspersed amongst
Guinea–Congolian/Zambezian Regional Transition Zone in the northernmost extreme,
and Guinea–Congolian in Cabinda. Scattered Afromontane pockets primarily on
the interior plateau.
Flora: Mainly miombo woodland (and other variants) and grassland savannas,
with patches of lowland rainforest in the north. Intermediate elevation forest
on the western escarpment, montane forests in the highlands, and arid desert
and subdesert formations in the southwest.
