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The DRC's largest export is raw minerals, with China having accepted over 50% of its exports in 2019. [2] In 2025, DR Congo's level of human development was ranked 180th out of 193 countries by the Human Development Index [ 19 ] and is classified as being one of the least developed countries by the United Nations (UN).
Currently, there are 44 landlocked countries, two of them doubly landlocked (Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan), and three landlocked de facto states in the world. Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked country, Kyrgyzstan is the furthest landlocked country from any ocean, while Ethiopia is the world's most populous landlocked country. [1] [2]
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]
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. [3]
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The westernmost section of the DRC, a partly forested panhandle reaching the Atlantic Ocean, [2] is an extension of the southern uplands that drops sharply to a very narrow shore about 40 kilometres (25 mi) long. [1] In the much narrower northern uplands, the cover is largely savanna, and woodlands are rarer. [1]
Madimba Territory is a territory in the Kongo Central Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Its seat is the town of Madimba. [1] [2] The region covers an area of 8,260 square miles and is situated 100 km from Kinshasa.
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.