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Albertsee. Die Demokratische Republik Kongo ( deutsch [ ˈkʰɔŋgo ], französisch [ kɔ̃ˈgo ], abgekürzt DR Kongo ), von 1971 bis 1997 Zaire (frz. Zaïre ), auch bekannt als Kongo-Kinshasa, Congo-Léopoldville (in Unterscheidung zu Congo-Brazzaville) oder einfach Kongo, ist eine Republik in Zentralafrika.
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It is named after the Congo River whose name is derived from Kongo, a Bantu kingdom which occupied its mouth around the time the Portuguese first arrived in 1483 or 1484. The kingdom's name derived from its people, the Bakongo, an endonym said to mean "hunters" (Kongo: mukongo, nkongo). During the period when it was colonized by France, it was know...
Bantu-speaking peoples who founded tribes during the Bantu expansions mostly displaced and absorbed the earlier inhabitants of the region, the Pygmy people, about 1500BC. The Bakongo, a Bantu ethnic group that occupied parts of what later is Angola, Gabon, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formed the basis for ethnic affinities and rivalrie...
The government of the Republic is a semi-presidential system with an elected president who appoints the Council of Ministers, or Cabinet. The council, including the Prime Minister, is selected from the elected representatives in Parliament. Since the 1990s, the country has had a multi-party political system which is dominated by President Denis Sas...
Natural landscapes range from the savanna plains in the North Niari flooded forests, to the Congo River, to the rugged mountains and forests of Mayombe, and 170 km of beaches along the Atlantic coast. Congo is located in the central-western part of sub-Saharan Africa, along the Equator, lying between latitudes 4°N and 5°S, and longitudes 11° and 19...
The economy is a mixture of village agriculture and handicrafts, an industrial sector based mainly on petroleum, support services, and a government characterized by budget problems and "overstaffing". Petroleum extraction has supplanted forestry as the mainstay of the economy. In 2008, the oil sector accounted for 65% of the GDP, 85% of government ...
Its population is concentrated in the southwestern portion, leaving the areas of tropical jungle in the north virtually uninhabited. 70% of its total population lives in urban areas, namely in Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire, or one of the cities or villages lining the 534-kilometre (332 mi), railway which connects the two cities. In rural areas, industr...
Government 1. Presidency of the Republic Archived 22 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine (in French) 2. Chief of State and Cabinet Members Archived 10 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine General 1. Country Profile from BBC News 2. Republic of the Congo. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. 3. Republic of the Congo from UCB Libraries G...
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