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The DRC is the second-largest diamond-producing nation in the world, [c] and artisanal and small-scale miners account for most of its production. At independence in 1960, DRC was the second-most-industrialized country in Africa after South Africa; it boasted a thriving mining sector and a relatively productive agriculture sector. [210]
Much of the forest within the basin is swamp, and still more of it consists of a mixture of marshes and firm land. [1] North and south of the basin lie higher plains and, occasionally, hills covered with varying mixtures of savanna grasses and woodlands. [1] The southern uplands region, like the basin, constitutes about a third of the DRC's ...
A landlocked parcel is a real estate plot that has no legal access to a public right of way. [1] Generally, a landlocked parcel has less value than a parcel that is not landlocked. [ 2 ] Often, the owner of a landlocked parcel can obtain access to a public roadway by easement .
A landlocked country is a country that does not have any territory connected to an ocean or whose coastlines lie solely on endorheic basins.Currently, there are 44 landlocked countries, two of them doubly landlocked (Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan), and three landlocked de facto states in the world.
Land boundaries: 10,730 km Angola 2,511 km Republic of the Congo 2,410 km Zambia 1,930 km Central African Republic 1,577 km Uganda 765 km South Sudan 628 km Tanzania 459 km Burundi 233 km Rwanda 217 km. Coastline: Gulf of Guinea 37 km; Population of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo:
The landlocked developing countries (LLDC) are developing countries that are landlocked. [1] Due to the economic and other disadvantages suffered by such countries, the majority of landlocked countries are least developed countries (LDCs), with inhabitants of these countries occupying the bottom billion tier of the world's population in terms of poverty. [2]
Some collectivities are not a contiguous area of land but are made up instead of more than one unconnected area. The grouping (of villages) and, at a higher level, the chiefdom are subdivisions led by customary leaders of traditional polities. An embedded grouping is a grouping that has been absorbed into a commune.
Rutshuru Territory is a territory in the North Kivu province of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with headquarters is the town of Rutshuru. The territory is mountainous, including a large portion of the Virunga National Park, famous for its mountain gorillas.