DR Congo
DR Congo (officially Democratic Republic of the Congo) is a country in Middle Africa, with its capital at Kinshasa, and is home to roughly 109.3M people.
Its official languages are French, Kikongo, Lingala, Tshiluba, Swahili; the currency in circulation is Congolese franc (FC); people from here are called Congolese.
- »The Congo is the deepest river in the world, over 220 m in places.
- »It is the largest country in sub-Saharan Africa and holds most of the world's cobalt reserves.
DR Congo straddles the equator.
DR Congo touches nine neighbours: Angola to the southwest, Burundi to the east, Central African Republic to the north, Republic of the Congo to the west, Rwanda to the east, South Sudan to the northeast, Tanzania to the east, Uganda to the northeast and Zambia to the south. Directions run from one centre to the other. Neighbours in six different compass directions make this one of the better-connected outlines in the set.
Kinshasa faces Brazzaville across the Congo river. They are the closest pair of capital cities in the world that are not in the same country, only a few kilometres apart.
2,334,672 km² (901,422 sq mi), 10th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Algeria.
Population 109,276,265, 15th of 198 on file. That averages 47 per km² (121 per sq mi).
The yellow star stands for a unified future; the red diagonal, bordered in yellow, is the blood of the country's martyrs.