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Angola

Angola's football team is nicknamed the Palancas Negras after the giant sable, whose curved horns can grow longer than 1.5 metres. The animal is the symbol of the national airline too.

Where its story happens

Cangandala National Park, at 9.80°S, 16.75°E. It's the place the game marks on the globe once the country is found. See it on a map.

Five things to know about Angola

In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the middling countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.

  1. Where it is. It's Angola, on the Atlantic coast of southern Africa, directly north of Namibia. See Angola on a map.
  2. Its capital, Luanda, is a big port on the Atlantic, and it is one of Africa's top oil producers.
  3. It is the largest of Africa's Portuguese-speaking countries.
  4. In the 1600s its Queen Nzinga led her armies against Portuguese rule for about thirty years.
  5. Its national symbol, the giant sable antelope, lives wild nowhere else on Earth.

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