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Congo River

The Congo River, formerly also known as the Zaire River, is the second-longest river in , shorter only than the Nile, as well as the third largest river in the world by discharge volume, following the Amazon and Ganges–Brahmaputra rivers.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in central Africa
  • Also known as: “Canal do Norte”, “Congo”, “Congo Fleuve”, “Fleuve Congo”, “Fleuve Zaïre”, “Le Congo”, “NZari”, “Pillar River”, “Rio de Padrão”, “River Congo”, “Zaire”, “Zaíre”, and “Zaire River”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Banana and Soyo.

Village
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is a small seaport in the province of the on the Atlantic coast. The port is situated in Creek, an inlet about 1 km wide on the north bank of the Congo River's mouth, separated from the ocean by a spit of land 3 km long and 100 to 400 m wide. is situated 8 km north of Congo River.

Town
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is a city, with a population of 200,920, and a municipality, with a population of 227,175, located in the province of Zaire in , at the mouth of the Congo River. is situated 9 km southwest of Congo River.

Congo River

Latitude
-6.07746° or 6° 4′ 39″ south
Longitude
12.42563° or 12° 25′ 32″ east
Open location code
6F5JWCFG+27
Geo­Names ID
2241717
Wiki­data ID
Q3503
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Congo River” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kongorivier”
  • Albanian: “Lumi Kongo”
  • Amharic: “ኮንጎ ወንዝ”
  • Arabic: “نهر الكونغو”
  • Aragonese: “Río Congo”
  • Armenian: “Կոնգո գետ”
  • Armenian: “Կոնգո”
  • Assamese: “কংগো নদী”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Congu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Konqo çayı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Konqo”
  • Balinese: “Tukad Kongo”
  • Bashkir: “Конго”
  • Basque: “Kongo”
  • Bavarian: “Kongo”
  • Belarusian: “Конга (рака)”
  • Belarusian: “Конга”
  • Bengali: “কঙ্গো নদী”
  • Bengali: “জায়ার নদী”
  • Bhojpuri: “कांगो नदी”
  • Bosnian: “Kongo”
  • Breton: “Kongo”
  • Bulgarian: “Конго”
  • Burmese: “ကွန်ဂိုမြစ်”
  • Catalan: “Riu Congo”
  • Cebuano: “Congo River”
  • Central Bikol: “Congo River”
  • Central Bikol: “Congo”
  • Central Bikol: “Salog Congo”
  • Central Bikol: “Salog Kongo”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕووباری کۆنگۆ”
  • Chechen: “Конго”
  • Chinese: “Congo Hô”
  • Chinese: “刚果河”
  • Chinese: “剛果河”
  • Chuvash: “Конго”
  • Cornish: “Kongo”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kongo (özen)”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kongo”
  • Croatian: “Kongo”
  • Czech: “Kongo”
  • Czech: “Zair”
  • Danish: “Congofloden”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Royê Kongoyi”
  • Dutch: “Congo River”
  • Dutch: “Kongo-rivier”
  • Dutch: “Kongo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر الكونجو”
  • Esperanto: “Rivero Kongo”
  • Estonian: “Kongo jõgi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Congo Naddi”
  • Finnish: “Kongo”
  • French: “Congo”
  • French: “fleuve Congo”
  • French: “fleuve Zaïre”
  • French: “Zaïre”
  • Galician: “Río Congo”
  • Galician: “río Zaire”
  • Georgian: “კონგო”
  • German: “Kongo”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Congo River”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “sigma”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Zaire River”
  • Greek: “Κονγκό”
  • Guarani: “Ysyry Kóngo”
  • Gujarati: “કોંગો નદી”
  • Haitian: “Kongo”
  • Hausa: “Kogin Congo”
  • Hebrew: “קונגו”
  • Hindi: “कांगो नदी”
  • Hungarian: “Kongó”
  • Icelandic: “Kongófljót”
  • Ido: “Fluvio Kongo”
  • Iloko: “Karayan Kongo”
  • Inari Sami: “Kongojuuhâ”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Kongo”
  • Ingush: “Конго-хий”
  • Interlingua: “Congo”
  • Interlingua: “Fluvio Congo”
  • Irish: “An Congó”
  • Italian: “Congo”
  • Italian: “Zaire”
  • Japanese: “コンゴ川”
  • Javanese: “Kali Kongo”
  • Kabiyè: “Koŋgo Pɔɔ”
  • Kabyle: “Asif n Kungu”
  • Kabyle: “Kungu”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಂಗೊ ನದಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Конго”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi wa Congo”
  • Kirghiz: “Конго дарыясы”
  • Kirghiz: “Конго”
  • Kongo: “Nzadi Kongo”
  • Kongo: “Nzâdi Kôngo”
  • Korean: “콩고강”
  • Kurdish: “Kongo (çem)”
  • Kurdish: “Kongo”
  • Latin: “Congo”
  • Latvian: “Kongo”
  • Lingala: “Kongó”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Rio Congo”
  • Lithuanian: “Kongas”
  • Lombard: “Congo (fium)”
  • Lombard: “Congo”
  • Low German: “Kongo (Stroom)”
  • Low German: “Kongo”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kongo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kongo”
  • Macedonian: “Конго”
  • Malagasy: “Congo”
  • Malagasy: “Renirano Kôngô”
  • Malay: “Sungai Congo”
  • Malay: “Sungai Kongo”
  • Malayalam: “കോംഗോ നദി”
  • Marathi: “काँगो नदी”
  • Mazanderani: “کنگو”
  • Mazanderani: “کونگو”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “نهر الكونگو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Congo Hô”
  • Mingrelian: “კონგო”
  • Mongolian: “Конго мөрөн”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لواد د لكونݣو”
  • Nepali: “कङ्गो नदी”
  • Newari: “कङ्गो खुसि”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kongo”
  • Northern Sami: “Kongoeatnu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kongo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kongoelva”
  • Norwegian: “Kongo”
  • Nyanja: “Mtsinje wa Congo”
  • Obolo: “Okwaan̄ Kongo”
  • Obolo: “Okwaan̄ Zaiye”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Còngo”
  • Ossetian: “Конго”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਂਗੋ ਦਰਿਆ”
  • Persian: “رود کنگو”
  • Persian: “کنگو”
  • Piemontese: “Còngo”
  • Polish: “Kongo”
  • Portuguese: “Congo”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Congo”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Zaire”
  • Pushto: “کانګو سیند”
  • Quechua: “Kungu mayu”
  • Romanian: “Congo”
  • Russia Buriat: “Конго мүрэн”
  • Russian: “Конго”
  • Rusyn: “Конґо”
  • Samogitian: “Kuongs”
  • Scots: “Congo River”
  • Serbian: “Kongo”
  • Serbian: “Конго”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kongo”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kongo”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kongojokk”
  • Slovak: “Kongo”
  • Slovenian: “Kongo”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کونقو چایی”
  • Spanish: “Congo”
  • Spanish: “río Congo”
  • Spanish: “Río Congo”
  • Swahili: “Kongo”
  • Swahili: “Mto wa Kongo”
  • Swahili: “Mto wa Zaïr”
  • Swedish: “Congo River”
  • Swedish: “Kongofloden”
  • Swiss German: “Kongo”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog Congo”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog Konggo”
  • Tajik: “Дарёи Конго”
  • Tajik: “Конго”
  • Talysh: “Kongo ru”
  • Tamil: “காங்கோ ஆறு”
  • Tatar: “Kongo yılğası”
  • Telugu: “కాంగో నది”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำคองโก”
  • Tibetan: “ཁོང་ཀོ་གཙང་པོ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kongo”
  • Tumbuka: “Mronga Congo”
  • Turkish: “Kongo Nehri”
  • Turkmen: “Kongo derýasy”
  • Tyap: “A̱ghyui Konggo”
  • Ukrainian: “Конго”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kongo”
  • Urdu: “دریائے کانگو”
  • Uzbek: “Kongo”
  • Venetian: “Fiume Congo”
  • Veps: “Kongo”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Congo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salog Congo”
  • Welsh: “Afon Congo”
  • Western Frisian: “Kongo”
  • Western Mari: “Конго”
  • Western Panjabi: “کانگو دریا”
  • Wu Chinese: “剛果河”
  • Yakut: “Конго өрүс”
  • Yakut: “Конго”
  • Yiddish: “קאנגא טייך”
  • Yiddish: “קאנגא”
  • Yoruba: “Odò Congo”
  • Yue Chinese: “剛果河”
  • Zeeuws: “Konho (rivier)”
  • Zeeuws: “Konho”
  • Zhuang: “Dah Ganghgoj”
  • “Congo”
  • “Congo, jume”
  • “Kuongs”
  • “कांगो नदी”

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