Portuguese language in Africa The nation-states with Portuguese as an official language in Africa are referred to by the acronym PALOP () and include the following: Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe. Portuguese is a primarily urban language having a reduced presence in rural areas, except for in Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe, where the language is more widespread. South Africa also has approximately 300,000 speakers of Portuguese, primarily settlers from Madeira and white Angolans and Mozambicans who emigrated from 1975 onwards, following the independence of the former colonies. The civil wars in Angola and Mozambique also resulted in
Portuguese colonial exhibition and Príncipe, and Timor (Portuguese Timor). There were reproductions of villages from different colonies and of the Padrãos of Dighton and Yellala, along with a zoo, restaurants a theatre, a cinema which showed "'The Dawn Patrol" and an amusement park. It ran from 16 June to 30 Septemberand by the time it had closed there had been 1.5 million visitors. 'Portugal is Not a Small Country' map used to show how big Portuguese colonies were Portuguese colonial exhibition The Portuguese colonial exhibition was a world's fair held in Porto, Portugal in 1934 to display achievements of Portugal's colonies in Africa