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Type Country
Usage Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Albanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Turkish, Georgian, Armenian, Indonesian, Malay
Pronounced Pron. /æŋ.ˈɡoʊ.lə/(American English) /æŋ.ˈɡəʊ.lə/(British English) /an.ˈɡo.la/(Spanish) /ɑ̃.ɡɔ.la/(French) /ɑ̃.ɡo.la/(French) /ˌɑŋ.ˈɣoː.laː/(Dutch) /ɐn.ˈɡo.ɫə/(Russian) /an.ˈɡɔ.la/(Polish) /ˈɒŋ.ɡo.lɒ/(Hungarian) /aŋ.ˈɡɔ.ɫa/(Macedonian) /an.ɡo.la/(Georgian) /ɑn.ˈɡo.lɑ/(Armenian)
Meaning & History
Portuguese form of Ngola, the royal title of the kings of Ndongo, an African kingdom that was conquered by the Portuguese in the 17th-century. It was a Portuguese colony until 1975, when it became an independent country.