Angola

Facts

What the numbers say about Angola

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 13.6× the size of Angola.
• At 30 people per km², Angola is the 135th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Angola lies at 12°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
• Laid out flat, Angola's main territory stretches about 1,510 km north to south and 1,330 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 1,247,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,245,000 km², to within 2%.

How Angola measures up

Angola holds 4.2% of the land area and 2.6% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Middle Africa it is the 3rd largest of 9.

Where Angola sits

• Angola's centre lies at 12.3°S, 17.5°E, in the southern and eastern hemispheres, about 1,360 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 18°S to 4°S, about 1,520 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Angola had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Angola would have 1.56 billion people. It has 36.7 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Angola would have 4.6 million people. It has 36.7 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 90.1 million.

Compare Angola

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