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[70] [71] The GDP of the Republic of the Congo grew by 6% in 2014 and is expected to have grown by 7.5% in 2015. [72] [73] In 2018, the Republic of the Congo joined the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. [74] Congo–Ocean Railway was built by forced laborers during the 1930s. Some colonial architectural heritage is preserved.
A map of Kinshasa presenting its Communes. Kinshasa is both a city (ville in French) and a province, one of the 26 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Nevertheless, it has city subdivisions and is divided into 24 communes (municipalities), which in turn are divided into 369 quarters and 21 embedded groupings. [66]
Downriver the Congo has numerous rapids, known as Livingston Falls, preventing navigation upriver to this point from its mouth at the Atlantic. Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is located on the southern bank of the Congo, directly across from Brazzaville. To distinguish between the two African countries that have ...
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, it is the second-largest country in Africa and the 11th-largest in the world.
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.
Zaire, [c] officially the Republic of Zaire, [d] was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1971 to 18 May 1997. Located in Central Africa , it was, by area, the third-largest country in Africa after Sudan and Algeria , and the 11th-largest country in the world from 1965 to 1997.
Kinshasa–Brazzaville is a transborder agglomeration comprising Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, which face each other across the Congo River.
An enlargeable topographic map of the Republic of the Congo. Geography of the Republic of the Congo. The Republic of the Congo is: a country; Location: Eastern Hemisphere, on the Equator; Africa. Middle Africa; Time zone: UTC+01. Time in the Republic of the Congo; Extreme points of the Republic of the Congo High: Mont Nabeba 1,020 m (3,346 ft)