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 Congo”, “fleuve Zaïre”, “Fleuve Zaïre”, “Kongo-rivier”, “Le Congo”, “Mto wa Zaïr”, “NZari”, “Okwaan̄ Zaiye”, “Pillar River”, “río Congo”, “Rio de Padrão”, “Rio Zaire”, “río Zaire”, “River Congo”, “sigma”, “Zair”, “Zaire”, “Zaíre”, “Zaïre”, “Zaire River”, and “জায়ার নদী”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Banana and Soyo.

Village
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is a small seaport in the … is situated 8 km north of Congo River.

Town
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is a city, with a population of 200,920, and… 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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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”
  • Bengali: “কঙ্গো নদী”
  • Bhojpuri: “कांगो नदी”
  • Bosnian: “Kongo”
  • Breton: “Kongo”
  • Bulgarian: “Конго”
  • Burmese: “ကွန်ဂိုမြစ်”
  • Catalan: “Riu Congo”
  • Cebuano: “Congo River”
  • Central Bikol: “Salog Kongo”
  • Central Kanuri: “Congo River”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕووباری کۆنگۆ”
  • Chechen: “Конго”
  • Chinese: “刚果河”
  • Chinese: “剛果河”
  • Chuvash: “Конго”
  • Cornish: “Kongo”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kongo (özen)”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kongo”
  • Croatian: “Kongo”
  • Czech: “Kongo”
  • Dagbani: “Congo Mɔɣili”
  • Dagbani: “Congo River”
  • Danish: “Congofloden”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Royê Kongoyi”
  • Dutch: “Kongo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر الكونجو”
  • Esperanto: “Rivero Kongo”
  • Estonian: “Kongo jõgi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Congo Naddi”
  • Finnish: “Kongo”
  • French: “Congo”
  • Galician: “Río Congo”
  • Georgian: “კონგო”
  • German: “Kongo”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Congo 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”
  • Igbo: “Osimiri Congo”
  • Iloko: “Karayan Kongo”
  • Inari Sami: “Kongojuuhâ”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Kongo”
  • Ingush: “Конго-хий”
  • Interlingua: “Congo”
  • Interlingua: “Fluvio Congo”
  • Interlingue: “Congo”
  • Irish: “An Congó”
  • Italian: “Congo”
  • Japanese: “コンゴ川”
  • Javanese: “Kali Kongo”
  • Kabiyè: “Koŋgo Pɔɔ”
  • Kabyle: “Asif n Kungu”
  • Kabyle: “Kungu”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಂಗೊ ನದಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kongo”
  • Kazakh: “Конго”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi wa Congo”
  • Kirghiz: “Конго дарыясы”
  • Kirghiz: “Конго”
  • Kongo: “Nzadi Kongo”
  • Kongo: “Nzâdi Kôngo”
  • Korean: “콩고강”
  • Kurdish: “Kongo”
  • Latin: “Congo”
  • Latvian: “Kongo”
  • Lingala: “Kongó”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Rio Congo”
  • Literary Chinese: “剛果河”
  • 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”
  • Neapolitan: “Congo, jume”
  • 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”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Còngo”
  • Ossetian: “Конго”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਂਗੋ ਦਰਿਆ”
  • Persian: “رود کنگو”
  • Persian: “کنگو”
  • Piemontese: “Còngo”
  • Polish: “Kongo”
  • Portuguese: “Congo”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Congo”
  • 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”
  • Sindhi: “ڪانگو درياهه”
  • Sindhi: “ڪانگو درياھ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kongojokk”
  • Slovak: “Kongo”
  • Slovenian: “Kongo”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کونقو چایی”
  • Spanish: “Congo”
  • Spanish: “Río Congo”
  • Swahili: “Kongo”
  • Swahili: “Mto Kongo”
  • 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།”
  • Tswana: “Noka ya Congo”
  • 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”
  • “कांगो नदी”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Bulambemba and Vuandembo.

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