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DEMOCRATIC REPUPLIC OF CONGO |
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Location: Africa
Capital: Kinshasa ( 4.700.000 inhab.)
Main Cities: Kananga, Lubumbashi, Kisangani
Population: 42,476,000
Area: 2,345,410 km2
Coin: 1 Congolese Franc = 100 centimes
Languages: French, Swahili
Religions: Roman Catholic, Animist, Protestant
Rivers: Congo, Lualaba
Lakes: Tanganica, Kivu |
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Despite the name, this wide nation (the greatest of the Africa after Sudan and Algeria: almost 8 times bigger than Italy), ex Belgian Congo and ex Zaire, it has been flagellated by bloody wars, coups d'état, bands armed, by thousands of killings and from almost one million of hopeless refugees. The population lives in unbelievably disastrous economic conditions, and yet the Democratic Republic of Congo is a rich nation, with damp hot climate and extremely fertile soils and mineral huge resources, above all made of copper, but also of cobalt, silver, zinc, coal, uranium, diamonds, gold and petroleum.
| * Information and news of every kind (and photographic documentation) about Democratic Republic of the Congo are to disposition of the partners of the Worldwide Geographic Academy: info@accademiageograficamondiale.com |
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Photographies to greater solution can be found to the page Equatorial Africa Gallery
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