Angola in other languages: names, Luanda, flag and the 21 provinces
Angola is officially the República de Angola, the Republic of Angola, with the ISO codes AO, AGO and 024. Its name follows in 173 languages, the capital Luanda in 64, and the 21 provinces with their capitals and ISO 3166-2 codes.
Official languagesPortuguese (português)
Checked
- alpha-2
- AO
- alpha-3
- AGO
- numeric
- 024
República de Angola
- English
- AngolaRepublic of Angola
- Capital
- LuandaLuanda
ISO 3166-1, checked 28 October 2026. Flag after the Wikimedia Commons drawing.
Angola in other languages: list of exonyms
| Languages | ISO 639 | Name | Romanised |
|---|---|---|---|
| English, Afrikaans, Aragonese, Asturian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Cornish, Welsh, Danish, Lower Sorbian, Estonian, Basque, Faroese, Finnish, Kven, French, Franco-Provençal, Galician, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Croatian, Upper Sorbian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Javanese, Jersey Norman French, Kinyarwanda, Kurmanji Kurdish, Latvian, Limburgish, Lingala, Lithuanian, Ladin, Latgalian, Maltese, Dutch, Norwegian, Novial, Polish, Portuguese, Romansh, Romanian, Rundi, Aromanian, Sicilian, Slovak, Slovenian, Northern Sami, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Albanian, Sardinian, Saterland Frisian, Swahili, Swedish, Silesian, Tetum, Turkish, Võro, Walloon, Zazaki | eng / afr / arg / ast / bre / cat / ces / cor / cym / dan / dsb / est / eus / fao / fin / fkv / fra / frp / glg / hat / hau / hrv / hsb / hun / ina / ind / ita / jav / jnf / kin / kur / lav / lim / lin / lit / lld / ltg / mlt / nld / nor / nov / pol / por / roh / ron / run / rup / scn / slk / slv / sme / sot / spa / sqi / srd / stq / swa / swe / szl / tet / tur / vor / wln / zza | Angola | same as written |
| Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Karakalpak, Moldovan, Slovio, Turkmen | crh / gag / kaa / mol / slo / tuk | Angola / Ангола | Angola |
| German, Luxembourgish, Low German | deu / ltz / nds | Angola | same as written |
| Scottish Gaelic, Occitan | gla / oci | Angòla | same as written |
| Xhosa, Zulu | xho / zul | iAngola | same as written |
| Azerbaijani | aze | Anqola / Ангола | Anqola |
| Bambara | bam | Angɔla | same as written |
| Bosnian | bos | Angola / Ангола / آنغۉلا | Angola |
| Esperanto | epo | Angolo | same as written |
| West Frisian | fry | Angoala | same as written |
| Friulian | fur | Angole | same as written |
| Irish | gle | Angóla | same as written |
| Manx | glv | Angoley | same as written |
| Igbo | ibo | Aṅgola | same as written |
| Icelandic | isl | Angóla | same as written |
| Kongo | kon | Ngola | same as written |
| Latin | lat | Angolia, Angola | same as written |
| Malagasy | mlg | Angôla | same as written |
| Malay | msa | Angola / اڠݢولا | Angola |
| Nahuatl | nah | Angollān | same as written |
| Norman French | nrm | Aungôla | same as written |
| Quechua | que | Angula | same as written |
| Kalderash Romani | rmy | Angola / आन्गोला | Angola |
| Samogitian | smg | Anguola | same as written |
| Samoan | smo | Anekola | same as written |
| Somali | som | Angoola | same as written |
| Tagalog | tgl | Anggola | same as written |
| Uzbek | uzb | Angola / Ангола / ئەنگالە | Angola |
| Vietnamese | vie | Ăng-gô-la | same as written |
| Volapük | vol | Langolän | same as written |
| Wolof | wol | Angolaa | same as written |
| Abkhaz, Abaza, Altai, Avar, Bulgarian, Khakas, Komi, Karachay-Balkar, Kumyk, Lezgi, Meadow Mari, Macedonian, Russian, Yakut, Tuvan, Udmurt, Kalmyk | abk / abq / alt / ava / bul / kjh / kom / krc / kum / lez / mhr / mkd / rus / sah / tyv / udm / xal | Ангола | Angola |
| Bashkir, Chechen, Serbian | bak / che / srp | Ангола / Angola | Angola |
| Rusyn, Ukrainian | rue / ukr | Анґола | Angola |
| Belarusian | bel | Ангола / Anhoła | Anhoła |
| Chuvash | chv | Анголӑ | Angolă |
| Kazakh | kaz | Ангола / انگولا / Angola | Angola |
| Kabardian | kbd | Анголэ | Angolă |
| Kyrgyz | kir | Ангола / انگولا / Angola | Angola |
| Kurdish (Caucasus, Cyrillic) | kmr | Ангола / Angola | Angola |
| Mongolian | mon | Ангол | Angol |
| Ossetian | oss | Анголӕ | Angolä |
| Tatar | tat | Ангола / Angola / ئانگولا | Angola |
| Tajik | tgk | Ангола / انگاله / Angola | Angola |
| Arabic | ara | أنغولا, أنجولا | Anġūlā, Angūlā |
| South Azerbaijani | azb | آنقولا / Anqola | Anqola |
| Sorani Kurdish | ckb | ئەنگۆلا / Engola | Engola |
| Persian | fas | آنگولا / Ângolâ, آنگول / Ângol | Ângolâ, Ângol |
| Western Punjabi | pnb | انگولا | Angōlā |
| Dari | prs | انگولا | Angōlā |
| Pashto | pus | انګولا, آنګولا | Angōlā, Āngōlā |
| Uyghur | uig | ئانگولا / An’gola / Ангола | An’gola |
| Urdu | urd | انگولا | Angōlā |
| Dhivehi | div | އެނގޯލާ | Eṅgōlā |
| Hebrew | heb | אנגולה | Angōlah |
| Ladino | lad | אנגולה / Angola | Angola |
| Yiddish | yid | אַנגאָלאַ | Angola |
| Berber (Tifinagh) | ber | ⴰⵏⴳⵓⵍⴰ / Angula | Angula |
| Amharic | amh | አንጎላ | Ăngola |
| Greek (Demotic) | ell-dhi | Αγκόλα, Ανγκόλα | Agkóla, Angkóla |
| Greek (Katharevousa) | ell-kat | Ἀγκόλα | Agkóla |
| Armenian | hye | Անգոլա | Angola |
| Georgian, Mingrelian | kat / xmf | ანგოლა | Angola |
| Laz | lzz | ანგოლა / Angola | Angola |
| Hindi | hin | अंगोला | Aṃgolā |
| Bengali | ben | এঙ্গোলা, অ্যাঙ্গোলা | Eṅgolā, Æṅgolā |
| Gujarati | guj | અંગોલા | Aṃgolā |
| Oriya | ori | ଆଙ୍ଗୋଲା | Āṅgolā |
| Punjabi | pan | ਅੰਗੋਲਾ | Ãgolā |
| Sinhala | sin | ඇන්ගෝලාව | Ængōlāva |
| Kannada | kan | ಅಂಗೋಲ | Aṃgōla |
| Malayalam | mal | അംഗോള | Aṃgōḷa |
| Tamil | tam | அங்கோலா | Aṅkōlā |
| Telugu | tel | అంగోలా | Aṃgōlā |
| Chinese | zho | 安哥拉 | Āngēlá |
| Japanese | jpn | アンゴラ | Angora |
| Korean | kor | 앙골라 | Anggolla |
| Tibetan | bod | ཨང་གོ་ལ། | Aṅ.go.la |
| Burmese | mya | အင်ဂိုလာ | Ĩgola |
| Thai | tha | อันโกลา, แองโกลา | Ânkōlā, Ǣṅkōlā |
| Khmer | khm | អង់ហ្គោឡា, អាង់កូឡា, អង់ហ្គូឡា | Ăṅhkōḷā, Aṅkūḷā, Ăṅhkūḷā |
Kongo writes Ngola, and Xhosa and Zulu add the noun prefix i-. Several Turkic languages give a Cyrillic and a Latin form.
Angola, Ngola, Ăng-gô-la
Hardly any country name changes less from language to language. Angola is written the same in English, Portuguese, German and most other languages of the table, and the variants are small: Angolo in Esperanto, Angula in Quechua, Anekola in Samoan, Ăng-gô-la in Vietnamese with the syllables split as Vietnamese spelling requires. Xhosa and Zulu put their noun prefix in front, iAngola.
The one form that stands apart comes from inside the country. Kongo writes Ngola, without the initial A that Portuguese added. Luanda behaves the same way: Kongo and Lingala write Lwanda with w, while Russian has Луанда, Arabic لواندا and Chinese 羅安達, Luō'āndá.
Inside Angola two spellings compete in place names. Portuguese orthography uses c and qu, the orthographies of the Bantu languages k and w, so Cuanza and Kwanza, Cuando Cubango and Kuando-Kubango name the same areas. The list of provinces shows both, depending on which form ISO and the 2024 law chose.
Luanda in other languages
| Languages | ISO 639 | Name | Romanised |
|---|---|---|---|
| English, French, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Portuguese | eng / fra / lat / lav / lit / por | Luanda | same as written |
| Azerbaijani, Moldovan, Turkmen | aze / mol / tuk | Luanda / Луанда | Luanda |
| German, Luxembourgish, Low German | deu / ltz / nds | Luanda | same as written |
| Kongo, Lingala | kon / lin | Lwanda | same as written |
| Bosnian | bos | Luanda / Луанда / لۆآندا | Luanda |
| Esperanto | epo | Luando | same as written |
| Irish | gle | Luanda | same as written |
| Haitian Creole | hat | Louanda | same as written |
| Icelandic | isl | Lúanda | same as written |
| Kurmanji Kurdish | kur | Luanda, Luwanda | same as written |
| Malay | msa | Luanda / لواندا | Luanda |
| Uzbek | uzb | Luanda / Луанда / لۇئەندە | Luanda |
| Bulgarian, Mongolian, Russian, Ukrainian | bul / mon / rus / ukr | Луанда | Luanda |
| Bashkir, Serbian | bak / srp | Луанда / Luanda | Luanda |
| Belarusian | bel | Луанда / Łuanda, Люанда / Luanda | Łuanda, Luanda |
| Chuvash | chv | Луандӑ | Luandă |
| Kazakh | kaz | Луанда / لۋاندا / Lwanda | Lwanda |
| Kabardian | kbd | Луандэ | Luandă |
| Kyrgyz | kir | Луанда / لۇاندا / Luanda | Luanda |
| Ossetian | oss | Луандӕ | Luandä |
| Tatar | tat | Луанда / Luanda / لۇئاندا | Luanda |
| Tajik | tgk | Луанда / لوؤنده / Luanda | Luanda |
| Arabic | ara | لواندا | Luwāndā |
| South Azerbaijani | azb | لواندا / Luanda | Luanda |
| Persian | fas | لوآندا / Luândâ | Luândâ |
| Western Punjabi | pnb | لوئانڈا | Lūʾānḋā |
| Pashto | pus | لواندا | Lūʾandā |
| Uyghur | uig | لۇئاندا / Luanda / Луанда | Luanda |
| Urdu | urd | لوانڈا | Lūʾanḋā |
| Hebrew | heb | לואנדה | Lūʾandah |
| Yiddish | yid | לואַנדע | Luande |
| Amharic | amh | ሉአንዳ, ሏንዳ | Lu'ănda, Lʷanda |
| Greek | ell | Λουάντα | Loyánta |
| Armenian | hye | Լուանդա | Louanda |
| Georgian | kat | ლუანდა | Luanda |
| Hindi, Marathi | hin / mar | लुआंडा | Luāṃḍā |
| Nepali | nep | लुवान्डा | Luvānḍā |
| Sanskrit | san | लुवांडा | Luvāṃḍā |
| Bengali | ben | লুয়াণ্ডা | Luyāṇḍā |
| Punjabi | pan | ਲੂਆਨਡਾ | Lūānḍā |
| Kannada | kan | ಲುಆಂಡ | Luāṃḍa |
| Malayalam | mal | ലുവാന്ഡ | Luvānḍa |
| Tamil | tam | லுவாண்டா | Luvāṇṭā |
| Telugu | tel | లువాన్డా | Luvānḍā |
| Chinese | zho | 羅安達/罗安达 | Luō'āndá |
| Japanese | jpn | ルアンダ | Ruanda |
| Korean | kor | 루안다 | Luanda |
| Thai | tha | ลูอันดา | Lū'ândā |
| Khmer | khm | លូអានដា | Lū'āndā |
The 21 provinces of Angola and their ISO 3166-2 codes
Angola has 21 provinces since the territorial law of 2024, which created Cuando, Icolo e Bengo and Moxico Leste. ISO 3166-2:AO still lists the 18 provinces that existed before, so the three new ones have no code yet and two codes cover a larger area than the province of the same name today.
| ISO 3166-2 | Portuguese | English | Administrative centre | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provinces províncias21 | ||||
| AO-BGO | BengoISO: Bengo | Bengo | CaxitoCaxito | 2011 Lost Ícolo e Bengo and Quiçama to Luanda in 2011 |
| AO-BGU | BenguelaISO: Benguela | Benguela | BenguelaBenguela | |
| AO-BIE | BiéISO: Bié | Bié | CuítoCuíto | |
| AO-CAB | CabindaISO: Cabinda | Cabinda | CabindaCabinda | |
| no code | Cuando | Cuando | MavingaMavinga | 2024 New in 2024, from Cuando Cubango |
| AO-CNO | Cuanza NorteISO: Cuanza-Norte | Cuanza Norte | N’dalatandoN’dalatando | |
| AO-CUS | Cuanza SulISO: Cuanza-Sul | Cuanza Sul | SumbeSumbe | |
| AO-CCU | CubangoISO: Cuando Cubango | Cubango | MenongueMenongue | 2024 Rest of Cuando Cubango after 2024; ISO still codes the undivided province |
| AO-CNN | CuneneISO: Cunene | Cunene | OndjivaOndjiva | |
| AO-HUA | HuamboISO: Huambo | Huambo | HuamboHuambo | |
| AO-HUI | HuílaISO: Huíla | Huíla | LubangoLubango | |
| no code | Icolo e Bengo | Icolo e Bengo | CateteCatete | 2024 New in 2024, from Luanda |
| AO-LUA | LuandaISO: Luanda | Luanda | LuandaLuanda | 2024 Ceded Icolo e Bengo in 2024 |
| AO-LNO | Lunda NorteISO: Lunda-Norte | Lunda Norte | DundoDundo | 2007 Capital Lucapa in 2007 |
| AO-LSU | Lunda SulISO: Lunda-Sul | Lunda Sul | SaurimoSaurimo | |
| AO-MAL | MalanjeISO: Malange | Malanje | MalanjeMalanje | |
| AO-MOX | MoxicoISO: Moxico | Moxico | LuenaLuena | 2024 Ceded Moxico Leste in 2024; ISO still codes the undivided province |
| no code | Moxico Leste | Moxico Leste | CazomboCazombo | 2024 New in 2024, from Moxico |
| AO-NAM | NamibeISO: Namibe | Namibe | MoçâmedesMoçâmedes | 2007 Capital listed as Namibe in 2007 |
| AO-UIG | UígeISO: Uíge | Uíge | UígeUíge | |
| AO-ZAI | ZaireISO: Zaire | Zaire | M’banza-KongoM’banza-Kongo | |
Codes and ISO names: ISO 3166-2:AO on the ISO Online Browsing Platform, as tabulated in Wikipedia's ISO 3166-2:AO, checked 28 October 2026. New provinces and capitals: Law 14/24 of 5 September 2024 on the political and administrative division, as reported by Ver Angola and Expansão.
From 18 to 21 provinces
The provincial map changed twice in recent years. In 2011 Luanda grew at the expense of Bengo, and Law 14/24 of 5 September 2024 raised the number of provinces from 18 to 21. Two capitals differ from older lists. Wikipedia's Provinces of Angola gives Dundo for Lunda Norte, where the 2016 list had Lucapa, and Moçâmedes for Namibe province, where it named the town Namibe.
Questions about the names and provinces of Angola
How is Angola written in Georgian?
ანგოლა, transliterated Angola. Mingrelian uses the same spelling.
How many provinces does Angola have?
21 since the law of 5 September 2024. ISO 3166-2:AO still codes the 18 provinces that existed before it.
Which province is Dundo the capital of?
Lunda Norte (AO-LNO). Earlier lists give Lucapa as its capital.