Metroji clue #122

Luanda in five emoji

Angola

An Atlantic capital that spent decades at war and then had an oil boom, and the two facts explain most of what the city looks like now.

What each emoji refers to

Angola is one of the largest oil producers in Africa, and nearly all of it comes from offshore.
Kizomba is danced close and slow, and it has spread to dance schools across Europe.
Kuduro is the fast one, made on cheap software in the musseques and exported from there.
The Ilha is a long sand spit curling across the bay, holding most of the restaurants and beach bars.
The Benguela current runs cold up this coast and makes the fishing far better than the latitude suggests.

Luanda at a glance

Country
Angola
Coordinates
8.84Β° S, 13.29Β° E
First played

Nearest cities in the game

Distances are great-circle, the same measure the game reports after a wrong guess. The arrow is the direction you would need to travel from Luanda.

City Distance Direction
KinshasaDR Congo 540 km
BrazzavilleRepublic of the Congo 550 km
LibrevilleGabon 1,110 km
SΓ£o TomΓ©SΓ£o TomΓ© and PrΓ­ncipe 1,250 km
YaoundΓ©Cameroon 1,420 km
MalaboEquatorial Guinea 1,490 km

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