Congo

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Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Congo River forms most of the border between these two countries.
Look up Congo or Kongo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Congo (or Kongo or Kong) is the name of a major river in southern 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:

Contents
1 Places
1.1 Africa
1.1.1 Political
1.1.2 Geographic
1.1.3 Historical kingdoms
1.1.4 Administrative regions
1.2 Other places
2 Languages and ethnic groups
3 Entertainment
3.1 Acting
3.2 Film

3.3 Music
3.4 Print
3.5 Television
4 Warships
5 Other uses
6 People with the surname
7 See also

Places
Africa
Political
Democratic Republic of the Congo, or Congo-Kinshasa
Zaire, the name of the country under the Mobutu regime (19711997)
Republic of the Congo (Lopoldville) or Congo-Lopoldville (19601971)
Belgian Congo (19081960)
Congo Free State (18851908)
Republic of the Congo, or Congo-Brazzaville
People's Republic of the Congo (19701991)
French Congo (18801960)
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 (14001914), 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 (15851889), 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, Paraba, 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
Kong, 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 Kong, launched 1877

 Japanese battleship Kong, launched 1912 as a battlecruiser

Kong-class battlecruiser
JDS Kong (DDG-173), a Japanese destroyer launched in 1991
Kong-class destroyer

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 Kong, a Buddhist concept
Congo (chess variant), a chess variant invented by Demian Freeling

People with the surname

Kong 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)
Congo craton, one of the cratons making the African continental crust
Congo River (disambiguation)
Kakongo, former kingdom
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