Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CONGO

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Definitions of CONGO

1. A large river in Africa which flows for about 4,380 km (2,720 miles) to the Atlantic Ocean in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
2. (informal) Congregationalist
3. Alternative form of congou.: a kind of Chinese black tea.
4. (India) congratulations
5. A country in Central Africa larger and to the east of the Republic of the Congo. Official name: Democratic Republic of the Congo. Capital: Kinshasa.
6. A country in Central Africa smaller and to the west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Official name: Republic of the Congo. Capital: Brazzaville.
7. A region in Central Africa comprising the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo.

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Examples of Using CONGO in a Sentence

• Belgium, like France, controlled African countries like the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), Rwanda, and Burundi until the early 1960s.
• Burundi is located in East Africa, to the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, at the coordinates.
• During the Burundian Civil War, hundreds of thousands of Burundian refugees have at various times crossed to neighboring Rwanda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south.
• It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the south, the Republic of the Congo to the southwest, and Cameroon to the west.
• Democratic Republic of the Congo, the larger country to the southeast, sometimes referred to as "Congo-Kinshasa".
• Parties – (39): Australia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Colombia, Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Finland, France, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, Nigeria, Portugal, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela.
• The earliest known human settlements in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been dated back to the Middle Stone Age, approximately 90,000 years ago.
• The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the largest country of sub-Saharan Africa, occupying some.
• Demographic features of the population of the Democratic Republic of the Congo include ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
• The economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has declined drastically around the 1980s, despite being home to vast potential in natural resources and mineral wealth; their gross domestic product is $69.
• Politics of the Democratic Republic of Congo take place in the framework of a republic in transition from a civil war to a semi-presidential republic.
• Telecommunications in the Democratic Republic of the Congo include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
• The terrain and climate of the Congo Basin present serious barriers to road and rail construction, and the distances are enormous across this vast country.
• The FARDC was rebuilt patchily as part of the peace process which followed the end of the Second Congo War in July 2003.
• He made two voyages along the west coast of Africa in the 1480s, exploring the Congo River and the coasts of present-day Angola and Namibia.
• Egypt is the most populous country in the Middle East, and the fourth-most populous on the African continent, after Nigeria, Ethiopia and Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• It borders Equatorial Guinea (335 km) and Cameroon (349 km) to the north and the Republic of the Congo (2,567 km) to the east and south.
• Although Conrad does not name the river on which most of the narrative takes place, at the time of writing, the Congo Free State—the location of the large and economically important Congo River—was a private colony of Belgium's King Leopold II.
• It was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami, Lualaba, and Haut-Katanga provinces.

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