Geography Now! Angola 

Angolan here lol.. My country is soo strange, we are in the middle of a Economic crisis and we still are able to bring nicky minaj to sing a night for billions of dollars. Our Democracy ( lol as if ) its really funny I thought president could only stay in power for 5 years max.. ding ding ding we have our new Record 35 years in a row congratz mr. president

Feeling bad for Zimbabwe, gotta wait!

Despite all it's issues, Angola can take solace in knowing it has one of the most hadcore flags in the world

I’m part Angolan part Nigerian but these summer I went to Luanda and I saw how many Chinese and Brazilians live in the luxurious appartements and houses. Also, there are Portuguese and Italians living in my country. I love Angola so much, the food, the hospitality, the weather...You also could have talked about Agustino Neto, the first president of the country...My country is very interesting I hope one day I’ll make the tour of all the provinces and Nigeria too...I love your video, it’s very informative and simple

I am from Namibia but live in Angola for the past 14 years, $26 is not quite true, maybe in the luxury hotels, but normally goes for $8. Very beautiful country with different cultures and landscapes like said. To visit Angola you need a visa, but to get a visa you need a letter from a Angolan to invite you " carta de chamada" It could change, for Angola is starting to advertise tourism. One must know they ended a bad civil war and is working hard to get the infrastructure better.Corruption was also very bad, but the government is working on that.I love Angola!

Cidade do Kilamba isn't a ghost town anymore. :)

Abraços do Brasil aos irmãos Angolanos. 🇧🇷♥️🇦🇴

Love Angola From Brazil 🇧🇷🇦🇴

My dad is from Angola and my mom is from Andorra. I’m glad I found these, so informative. 💙👍🏻

I think it's time for an updated video.

it's CABINDA not CAMBINDA

An African country with a $26 sandwich?!!!! Congratulations Angola, you've arrived baby!!! Monaco, eat your heart out!!

Muitos sucessos para o povo Angolano 🙏, 🇵🇹❤️🇦🇴

It was actually Cuban-supported, not Soviet-supported, according to the Soviet officials of the time and the Angolan government itself, the USSR only contributed around 4 transport ships while the Cuban army is widely considered the reason Angola won the Frontier War, (so, you know, 2nd time in a row the Cubans have defeated US-led forces, just saying). As a side note the Cubans insisted on the freedom of Nelson Mandela as a condition for ending the war, the Appertheid regime approved of this after the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, to avoid being defeated and probably invaded by the Cuban army, thats were Mandela's well known friendship with Castro comes from.

Respeito por Angola!🇦🇴🇵🇹

You got a lot right, however, the kilamba town, is now fully occupied. The government subsidized the properties, making it easier for the local population to obtain mortgages.

So interesting that you don't mention Cuba. Since it played an important part in the liberation of Angola.

アンゴラ好きだよ 🇯🇵❤️🇦🇴

I love to see people pronounce our natural languages

Love Angola from Belgium ❤

wow i loved to watch this vídeo, Am angolan and i have learned more about my country with you. keep it up dude, lets discover Africa. Next time talk about Namibia

After watching your much later videos like that of South Africa and Serbia, I gotta say, the quality has improved greatly since your first few videos in 2014. Love it :)

Portugal ❤️ Angola

You forgot to mention how we got our country's name :) It was from queen Nzinga who was an Ngola ruler, who successfully fought the Portuguese troops trying to colonize Angola until the last of her days when she died a peaceful death at age of 80 ( this was back on the 17th century so imagine that o_o ). She was a remarkable diplomat, one of the strongest women history has met and a military tactics genius! As long as she ruled Portuguese couldn't take Angola. There were many Ngola rulers but she's the one we dedicated our country's name to. I hope you read this because it's a very interesting story and I get goose bumps every time my family ( my family is Ovimbundu ) tells me her story. She's greatly respected! Once again I hope you read this :D And keep your channel up man. I predict nothing but greatness for this channels future. It's simple but constructive, very well explained matters. You clearly know what you're doing. So keep it going!! :D

Olá! Eu sou brasileiro e mando um beijo para todas as pessoas de Angola 😘

Would love to see him come back and redo these early episodes with his current experience and resources.

Proud to be (part) Angolan!!!

Sou do Brasil. Um grande abraço para os irmãos angolanos

2023 Angolan here, things didn't turned out good due to corruption, economic crisis kicked in due to our government's oil dependance and lack of exploration of other resources, apartments don't cost 10k-15k (Unless you're renting a big house, 10 rooms, swimming pool, expensive luxurious place), sandwiches cost 30usd only in luxurious hotels, usually you get a big chicken one for 8usd (Still not sooo cheap) and I'm living in the kilamba's city (Which is now overpopulated) renting a 3 rooms (+ suite + living room + 2 toilets) apartment for 300USD wearing jeans which costed me 70-80usd. Apart from what I said everything else was on point, simple and very informative, even for me, quick correction, it wasn't only USSR supporting MPLA, it was also Cuba, and between them most of the army was cuban 80-90% , but the equipments were mostly from USSR.

Barby! You've come so far since these early videos. I can't wait to see the production values for Zimbabwe!

You've just gained a subscriber!

oh man u guys have grown so much! watching an old vid with the simple animations and the okay-ish audio quality just shows how much Geography Now has improved! You guys are great, keep up the excellent work!

i'm from angola. first of all, thank you for the video. it's very interesting. As an angolees i'm very sad to see how our country is doing. there is economic crisis. the president and his friends and family are very corrupt. they should do better things for the country.

Angola is definitely a place I would keep my eyes on. It is poised to do many things in the future. There is so much potential in the nation, mainly due to geography. Coffee exports could go up again.

Much love to Angola from Algeria 🇩🇿❤️🇦🇴

Thank you. I'm Angolan and I loved this video!

Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩 Angola 🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴

Thank you for talking about my country💖🇦🇴💖

We're only getting better, so proud to be angolan

I just found this channel today and I'm binge watching all the videos. Keep up the good work. I'm thoroughly enjoying each video.

the brazil-angola friendship made me think brazil was like "i know dat colonized feel, bro"

Where’s my Angolans peoples? Thanks for taking about my motherland we’re proud to be Angolans 🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴

love this channel. Finally someone who is covering every country in one channel

Not sure why french, egyptian or british flags are at 5:55, and USA's involvement was very marginal. MPLA is missing cuban flag, who provided most manpower while soviets provided the equpment. Some warsaw pact countries had their share in it too.

This channel is very informative and entertaining I just wish they came out more often but keep up the great work

The Angolan enclave bordering PRC is called Cabinda, not Cambinda

Hey good job! I've started getting interested to a lot of country related stuff at a young age and so far i'm enjoying all the new info that im getting from your videos. Keep it up.

This is a cool channel! I'm looking forward to more of your future videos. Keep up the great work!

A bandeira de Angola não tenta imitar a bandeira da URSS, ela se inspira nela em razão dos laços do MPLA com os ideais socialistas. Saudações ao bravo povo angolano, tão irmão do povo brasileiro 🇧🇷!

I love the videos! Keep up the good work :)

Hahaha its very funny how the host pronounce Portuguese words as if they were Spanish

Great work!! You describe those countries very well, without falling into the paradigm of etno/eurocentrism most videos often tend to, so it can tell you put a lot of work into the research. Much appreciated, you should get more credit!!

Fascinating! I loved it.

I'm brazilian, live in Brazil, and i have a lot of angolan friend. THEY ARE THE BEST GUYS IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!

Thank you, I enjoyed that, very informative!

Great videos. Very educational. Keep it up.

I love your videos, it's a great research work! I hope you'll continue this project! (btw it's Cabinda without "m")

Can't believe I only found this channel now, I love this sort of stuff, popped up in my recommendations. I can only assume you've gotten all the way to Z now so it shouldn't take me too long to get through it. Can't wait to get to my country (Ireland).

These videos are awesome!

thank you so much, couldnt find any good facts for my essay about Angola, this really helped.

This episode was really great, Paul. Seems like Angola is a pretty interesting country! Altohugh I've heard it's very hard to visit (visa regulations).

He should talk about Marginal in Luanda, one of the most beautiful places in Angola and Xyami Shopping. I was there with my family in July. Very good video👌🏾🇦🇴

Nice documentary, i like it! I am from Angola too man, thqnks for history

Love this series

🇦🇴 🇦🇱 🇹🇹 🇵🇬🇹🇱 best flags

Angolan Flag makes me want to become a citizen just so I can fight in its military as a dual wielding mini gun operator.

Really cool stuff bro! Congrats! If you want, when you get to Chile we can help you with some Chilean native & folk music to help contextualize even more your episode. Keep up the good work man!

I feel honored to be subscribed to you this early. The effort you put into these videos is amazing, and if you just keep at it like you have, you'll become big no doubt.

It's nice to see this amount of effort going into a channel with below a thousand subs, keep it up! btw I wouldn't mind seeing a video on Argentina because all I really know about them is that they went to war with the UK over the Falkland islands and they are very good at (European) football, and considering how big and strong the country is, people should probably have a rough idea on the geography of the place.

If Angolas economy is completely oil based, does that mean they're experiencing a recession right now?

Awesome videos, keep it up!

This video is so amazing, i am from Angola and I just learned things that I didnt know....keep it up geography now

You'll find Luanda and many other African cities expensive only if you want to lead a west-life style. So when you go there, you'd better adapt, in other words, forget the hamburgers and shopping time in the malls (ridiculously expensive). eat local food and behave like the average Angolan, whom is not that rich.

Just for the record, Angola had ties with a city in China -> Macau, Macau used to be portuguese aswell (until 1999), and so Angola and Macau had, (idk if they still have, but problably yes) a good connection.

This was very helpful, thank you! :)

This is a great show! All American children and their teachers should watch it! When are the new episodes? Looking forward to Brazil!

I'm an Angolan, some of the findings here aren't quite accurate. But thanks for the effort, it was worth a shot. Always a patriot

Some errors: Its Cabinda not Cabi>M

Oh your little soundtrack in the end of every video makes me happy :D

The birthplace of Kizomba music

I am from Denmark, and I must say that you must have been ripped off by the place that had you pay 21 usd for a sandwich!!

Other relevant facts of Angola 1- Ruled by a evil dicator for over 30 years 2-Richest women in Africa is Daughter of that dictactor 3-One of worst infant death rate in the world 4-Very rich musicly with worldly aclaimed genres like Kuduro and Kizomba. 5- The friendship with Portugal, is based on the fact that the corrupt elites are aloud to laudry their money there etc etc Good video tough :)

Great research!

Wow, today I wanted to know more about Angola because I am learning Kizomba and I asked myself: I wonder if Geography Now has a video about it. And it does!!! I love this channel

Love Angola from Indonesia

I'm Nigerian. i love Angola and Angolans

Do a video about Portugal now!!

Nice content, guys. Keep it up!

As a portuguese, working in Portugal but mostly for Angola.. I see Angola as a country with a huge potential. If they work on their levels off corruption and alow foreign tourism investments.. they could easilly become the top African country. The trade/finantial partnership with the USA is one the reasons Angola is improving so much. I hope they become the top African country and not a country like Brazil, with so much richness but also with so much corruption.

Isn't it Cabinda, not "Cambinda"

Loved this video! Can you do one on Mozambique?

My son loves your show!! thanks so much!

Don't Understand why I'm so interested in African countries, like Angola, Mauritania, and Libya. I also can't wait until the Tunisia video...

No mention of Kizomba?

United States: At the supermarket: I would like that soda please: That'll be $3 please. Angola: At the supermarket: I would like that soda please: That'll be $20 please. 😁😁

Your videos are great!

Wow, didn't imagine that Angola speak portuguese, this channel really show you how is the world

Greetings to Angola. Love from Pakistan... 🇵🇰 ❤ 🇦🇴

THIS CHANNEL!!!! This is wonderful! Great voice, great knowledge, and just the right amount of cheese!

Best new youtuber. SUBSCRIBED. and sharing with my class