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English: Astronaut's satellite photo of Brazzaville, on the north bank of the Congo River at the western Pool Malebo section. In the southeastern Republic of Congo. Kinshasa is across the river, on the southwest bank. Taken from the International Space Station (ISS) during Expedition 8 on December 29, 2003.
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 Republic of the Congo, or simply Congo, [3] is a distinct country from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as DR Congo. [18] Brazzaville's name derives from the colony's founder, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazzà, an Italian nobleman whose title referred to the town of Brazzacco, in the Italian comune of Moruzzo in Friuli Venezia ...
This is a list of cities and towns in the Republic of the Congo with population of 4,000 or more, according to 2023 census. [1] [2] List ... Brazzaville: 1,373,382: ...
The Pool Malebo, formerly Stanley Pool, also known as Mpumbu, Lake Nkunda or Lake Nkuna by local indigenous people in pre-colonial times, [1] [2] is a lake-like widening in the lower reaches of the Congo River. [3] The river serves as the border between the Republic of the Congo to the north and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the south.
Poto-Poto is one of Brazzaville's seven arrondissements or administrative districts. ... which is the largest mosque in Congo and holds nearly 2000 worshippers; ...
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.
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