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Democratic Republic of the Congo (official, English), Zaire (former official name, 1971 to 1997; still occasionally used to distinguish it from Republic of the Congo), DRC (initialism), Congo Kinshasa (used in contrast to "Congo Brazzaville"), Belgian Congo (former name during Belgian colonization, 1908 to 1960, English), Congo belge (former ...
1 December 1897 10 January 1899 1 year, 40 days Paul Costermans (1860–1905) January 1904 March 1905 1 year, 2 months Félix Fuchs (1858–1928) Governor-General ad interim: 25 December 1902 4 March 1904 1 year, 70 days Vice Governor-General 1907 1908 0–1 years Albert Lantonnois van Rode (1852–1934) May 1905 1906/7 1–2 years
Isaaq Sultanate (1 C, 2 P) K. Kingdom of Dahomey (5 C, 16 P) ... Pages in category "Former countries in Africa" The following 167 pages are in this category, out of ...
Map of the Belgian Congo, 1914. This is a list of place names of towns and cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo which were subsequently changed after the end of Belgian colonial rule. Place names of the colonial era tended to have two versions, one in French and one in Dutch, reflecting the two main languages of Belgium. Many of these ...
The Republic of the Congo (French: République du Congo) was a sovereign state in Central Africa, created with the independence of the Belgian Congo in 1960. From 1960 to 1966, the country was also known as Congo-Léopoldville (after its capital) to distinguish it from its northwestern neighbor, which is also called the Republic of the Congo ...
People's Republic of the Congo: Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 1964 1965 Kasongo: Sultanate of Utetera: Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 1860 1887 Bakwanga South Kasai: Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 1960 1962 Élisabethville State of Katanga: Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 1960 1963 Njimi: Kanem: Chad: fl. 11th century c. 1396
The Belgian Congo (French: Congo belge, pronounced [kɔ̃ɡo bɛlʒ]; Dutch: Belgisch-Congo) [a] was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960 and became the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville). The former colony adopted its present name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in 1964.
Congo, a 1980 novel by Michael Crichton Congo, a 1995 film based on the novel; Congo (chess variant), using a 7×7 gameboard; Congo, a 1995 pinball machine; Congo, a 2001 nature documentary; Congo – A Political Tragedy, a 2018 documentary film; Congo: The Epic History of a People, a 2010 book by David van Reybrouck