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Time in the Republic of the Congo; Time zone: West Africa Time: Initials: WAT: UTC offset: ... Data for the Congo directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone ...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo observes UTC+01:00 (West Africa Time) and UTC+02:00 (Central Africa Time). [1] It does not observe DST. [2] It is the only country in Africa to use more than one time zone.
This is a list representing time zones by country. Countries are ranked by total number of time zones on their territory. Time zones of a country include that of dependent territories (except Antarctic claims). France, including its overseas territories, has the most time zones with 12 (13 including its claim in Antarctica and all other counties).
Republic of the Congo Tunisia (as Central European Time) Western Sahara; Countries west of Benin (except Morocco and Western Sahara) are in the UTC+00:00 time zone. Civil time in most of those countries is defined with reference to Greenwich Mean Time [citation needed] (now an alias for UTC+0, rather than an independent reference).
Time zones of Africa: Light Blue : Cape Verde Time : Blue ... Democratic Republic of the Congo (eastern side) [87] Central Africa Time [87] CAT 1 January 1912
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been known in the past as, in chronological order, the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, the Republic of the Congo-Léopoldville, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Zaire, before returning to its current name the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [2] At the time of independence, the ...
N'Djili International Airport is the largest airport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and ranks 37th in Africa in terms of passengers carried, with 12 international flights per day. [32] In December 2015, Kinshasa was designated as a City of Music by UNESCO and has been a member of the Creative Cities Network since then.
Elections took place in April 1959. By the time the Congo became independent in August 1960, Opangault, the former opponent of Youlou, agreed to serve under him. Youlou, an avid anti-communist, became the first President of the Republic of the Congo. [29] Since the political tension was so high in Pointe-Noire, Youlou moved the capital to ...