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The Daily Insight

Is Angola pretty?

Author

Christopher Pierce

Updated on February 27, 2026

Angola is filled of beautiful sights and landscapes. We can go from beautiful clear and blue water beaches all over the 1600 km of seashore to stunning arid desert to humongous rocky formations to wild and green jungles and so on. That makes Angola a very blessed country and that helps the economy a lot!

What are the characteristics of Angola?

Angola has four principal natural regions: the arid coastal lowland, stretching from Namibia to Luanda and characterized by low plains and terraces; green hills and mountains, rising inland from the coast into a great escarpment; a large area of high inland plains of dry savanna, called the high plateau (planalto).

Why is Angola rich?

Much of Angola’s oil wealth lies in Cabinda, a province separated from the rest of the country by the Congo River and an arm of Congo. The oil industry drives about half of the country’s gross domestic product and constitutes about 90 percent of its exports. The birth rate in Angola is one of the highest in the world.