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The Republic of the Congo covers an area of 342,000 km², of which 341,500 km² is land while 500 km² is water. Congo claims 200 nautical miles (370 km) of territorial sea. The capital of the Republic of the Congo is Brazzaville, located on the Congo River immediately across from Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo [b] (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo, is a country in Central Africa. By land area, the country is the second-largest country in Africa and the 11th-largest in the world.
The Republic of the Congo is a member of the African Union, the United Nations, La Francophonie, the Economic Community of Central African States, and the Non-Aligned Movement. It is the fourth-largest oil producer in the Gulf of Guinea , providing the country a degree of prosperity, with political and economic instability in some areas and ...
The location of the Republic of the Congo An enlargeable map of the Republic of the Congo. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Republic of the Congo: Republic of the Congo – also known as Congo-Brazzaville or the Congo, is a sovereign country located in Central Africa. [1]
Location of the DRC on a world map. Area: total: 2,344,858 km 2 land: 2,267,048 km 2 water: 77,810 km 2. Idjwi in South Kivu. Area - comparative: 11th-largest country in the world (and 2nd in Africa) smaller than Algeria but larger than Greenland and Saudi Arabia; about 1 / 4 the size of the United States as a whole
The Mbomou River or Bomu (also spelled M'bomou in French) forms part of the boundary between the Central African Republic (CAR) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). [1] [2] The Mbomou merges with the Uele River to form the Ubangi River. [3] The Ubangi, a tributary of the Congo, also serves as part of the border between the CAR and ...
The Belgian Congo gained independence (as the Republic of the Congo, later renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo) on 30 June 1960, followed by the French territory of Ubangi-Shari (as the Central African Republic) on 13 August 1960, and their mutual frontier became an international one between two sovereign states. [2]
Congo Free State (1885–1908), Belgian Congo (1908–1960) I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.