Angola is a geographically having large territories and it is located in the Southern Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean and Luanda is its capital city. Angola is a member state of the African Union, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, the Latin Union and the Southern African Development Community. Angola remained a Portuguese colony in the nineteenth century and after becoming independent state 1975; Angola was the scene of an intense civil war from 1975 to 2002. Angola is officially known as the Republic of Angola.