Angola Provinces

Located east of the Atlantic Ocean, southwest of the D.R. Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo), north of Namibia, south of the Republic of the Congo, and west of Zambia in southwestern Africa, ANGOLA has eighteen provinces known as províncias in Portuguese, the country's official language. Angola's eighteen provinces in alphabetical order are Bengo, Benguela, Bié, Cabinda (Angola's exclave), Cuando Cubango, Cuanza Norte, Cuanza Sul, Cunene, Huambo, Huíla, Luanda, Lunda Norte, Lunda Sul, Malanje, Moxico, Namibe, Uíge, and Zaire.

Moxico is the largest province in land area, while Luanda province is the smallest. The list below shows the provinces' capitals listed in parentheses and land area (square kilometers) from largest to smallest. The land area figures were found on GeoHive at geohive.com (a now-defunct website).

Moxico (Luena) — 223,023 sq. kilometers

Cuando Cubango (Menongue) — 199,049

Lunda Norte (Lucapa) — 103,760

Malanje (Malanje) — 97,602

Cunene (Ondjiva) — 87,342

Huíla (Lubango) — 79,023

Lunda Sul (Saurimo) — 77,367

Bié (Kuito) — 70,314

Uíge (Uíge) — 58,698

Namibe (Namibe) — 57,091

Cuanza Sul (Sumbe) — 55,600

Zaire (M'Banza Kongo) — 40,130

Benguela (Benguela) — 39,826

Huambo (Huambo) — 34,270

Bengo (Caxito) — 31,371

Cuanza Norte (N'dalatando) — 24,110

Cabinda (Cabinda) — 7,270

Luanda (Luanda, capital of Angola) — 2,417

The shapefiles used to make this map in ArcGIS 10.1 came from the website Global Administrative Areas, located at www.gadm.org. Click the map above to view it larger.