The Inari River flows by the village, which is located close to the Norwegian border.

Most of the people speak Northern Sámi as their native language.

Angeli is called the "darkest village in Finland"; measured on the Bortle scale, Angeli's degree of darkness is one, which is why the darkness is so deep at night time that not even shapes can be distinguished from the landscape of the horizon.

The surname is derived from the name of the lake Angelijärvi, itself derived from a Kemi Sámi word referring to the long-tailed duck (compare Inari Sámi áŋálâh).

In the middle of the 19th century, two young men from the Angeli family moved from Peltovuoma to Inari, with the village eventually growing around their settlement.