Congo

  Republic of the Congo

  Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Congo River forms most of the border between these two countries.

Congo (or Kongo or Kongō) is the name of a major river in central Africa, the Congo River.

The term Congo may refer to two countries that border the Congo river:

• The larger Democratic Republic of the Congo (capital: Kinshasa), once known as Zaire;
• The smaller Republic of the Congo to the northwest (capital: Brazzaville).

The name may also refer to:

Places

Africa

Political

• Democratic Republic of the Congo, or Congo-Kinshasa
  • Zaire, the name of the country under the Mobutu regime (1971–1997)
  • Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) or Congo-Léopoldville (1960–1971)
  • Belgian Congo (1908–1960)
  • Congo Free State (1885–1908)
• Republic of the Congo, or Congo-Brazzaville
  • People's Republic of the Congo (1970–1991)
  • French Congo (1880–1960)
• Portuguese Congo, now the Angolan exclave of Cabinda Province

Geographic

• Congo River, African river also known as Zaire River
• Congo Basin, drainage for the Congo River in west equatorial Africa, an area inhabited by Congolese populations

Historical kingdoms

• Kingdom of Kongo (1400–1914), covering parts of present-day Angola and the two Congo states
• Kongo dia Nlaza (until late in the 16th century), a former kingdom absorbed by the Kingdom of Kongo
• Kingdom of Luba (1585–1889), a southern most former kingdom now located in the modern day Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Kingdom of Lunda (c. 1665 – 1887), a former kingdom located in the modern day countries of the Democratic Republic of Congo, north-eastern Angola and northwestern Zambia

Administrative regions

• M'banza-Kongo, capital of Angola's northwestern Zaire province
• Kongo Central, former Bas-Congo province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Other places

• Congo, Paraíba, Brazil
• Congo, Alabama, United States
• Congo, West Virginia, United States

Languages and ethnic groups

• Kongo people or Congolese, an ethnic group in the two Congo states and Angola
• Kongo language

Entertainment

Acting

• Kongō, one of the five schools of Noh acting

Film

• Kongo (1932 film), a film starring Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, and Conrad Nagel
• Congo (film), a 1995 film based on Michael Crichton's novel

Music

• "Congo" (song), a 1997 song by Genesis from Calling All Stations
• Kongos (band), a South African rock band
• The Congos, a reggae vocal group from Jamaica

Print

• Congo (novel), a 1980 novel by Michael Crichton

Television

• Congo (BBC TV series), a 2001 BBC documentary series

Warships

• HMS Congo (1816), a steamship for the Royal Navy, United Kingdom
• Japanese corvette Kongō, launched 1877
• Japanese battleship Kongō, launched 1912 as a battlecruiser
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• JDS Kongō (DDG-173), a Japanese destroyer launched in 1991
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Other uses

• Congo (loa), a spirit in Haitian voodoo mythology
• Congo (chimpanzee)
• The Conference of NGOs or CONGO, a worldwide group of charity and aid organizations
• Vajra or Kongō, a Buddhist concept
• Congo (chess variant), a chess variant invented by Demian Freeling

People with the surname

• Kongō Masahiro (born 1948), former Japanese sumo wrestler
• John Kongos (born 1945), South African musician, leader of the band Johnny Kongos and the G-Men
• Kid Congo Powers (born 1960), American rock guitarist and singer
• Louis Congo (fl. 1725), emancipated slave appointed public executioner of the French colony Louisiana
• Cheick Kongo (born 1975), a.k.a. Cheick Guillaume Ouedraogo, French mixed martial arts fighter and kickboxer

See also

• Conga (disambiguation)
• Kongō (disambiguation)
• King Kong (disambiguation)
• Congo craton, one of the cratons making the African continental crust
• Congo River (disambiguation)
• Kakongo, former kingdom
• All pages with titles beginning with Congo
• All pages with titles containing Congo
• All pages with titles beginning with Kongo
• All pages with titles containing Kongo