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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.
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]
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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.