Congo Basin
Congo Basin is a region in Democratic Republic of the Congo and is made up by the provinces of Equateur, Oriental and Maniema.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Kisangani and Okapi Wildlife Reserve.
Kisangani
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Kisangani is the third largest city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is the capital and largest city of the vast Orientale Province in the Congo Basin.
Okapi Wildlife Reserve
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The Okapi Wildlife Reserve is a wildlife reserve in the Ituri Forest in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, near the borders with South Sudan and Uganda.
Garamba National Park
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Garamba National Park is a national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1980. It was labelled a site in danger in 1980, removed in 1991, but regained the status in 1996 due to poaching and a fall in rhino numbers.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Salonga National Park and Mbandaka.
Salonga National Park
Salonga National Park is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1984, but was labelled a site in danger in 1999 due to urban development and poaching.
Mbandaka
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Mbandaka is in Congo Basin. It is the capital of Equateur province. This city is formerly known as Coqilhatville where it was named by the Belgians in 1886 during the beginning of colonial rule.
Gbadolite
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Gbadolite is a city of almost 200,000 in Congo Basin and the ancestral hometown of former dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.
Bumba
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Bumba is a town of 108,000 people in Congo Basin region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the right bank of the Congo River and close to the confluence of the Itimbiri.
Maiko National Park
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Maiko National Park is in the Congo Basin region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Zongo
Zongo is a city in the Congo Basin region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Zongo is located on the Bangui River opposite Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic.Congo Basin
- Type: drainage basin
- Description: basin of the Congo River in West Equatorial Africa
- Neighbors: Zambezi Basin
- Location: DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
-0.88° or 0° 52′ 48″ southLongitude of center
22.35° or 22° 21′ eastWikidata ID
Q932289
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Congo Basin” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حوض الكونغو”
- Azerbaijani: “Konqo çökəkliyi”
- Bashkir: “Конго уйпатлығы”
- Belarusian: “Конга ўпадзіна”
- Belarusian: “Упадзіна Конга”
- Bosnian: “Bazen rijeke Kongo”
- Catalan: “conca del Congo”
- Catalan: “Conca del Congo”
- Catalan: “Conca del riu Congo”
- Chinese: “刚果盆地”
- Chinese: “剛果盆地”
- Czech: “povodí Konga”
- Czech: “Povodí Konga”
- Danish: “Congobassinet”
- Dutch: “Congobekken”
- Dutch: “Kongobekken”
- Dutch: “stroomgebied van de Kongo”
- Esperanto: “Baseno Kongo”
- Esperanto: “Kongo-baseno”
- Estonian: “Kongo nõgu”
- Faroese: “Kongolægdin”
- Finnish: “Kongon allas”
- French: “bassin du Congo”
- French: “Bassin du Congo”
- Galician: “Conca fluvial do Congo”
- Georgian: “კონგოს ღრმული”
- German: “Kongobecken”
- Greek: “Λεκάνη του Κονγκό”
- Hausa: “Kongo Basin”
- Hebrew: “אגן הקונגו”
- Hindi: “कांगो द्रोणी”
- Hungarian: “Kongó-medence”
- Indonesian: “Basin Kongo”
- Indonesian: “Cekungan Kongo”
- Irish: “abhantrach an Chongó”
- Italian: “Bacino del Congo”
- Italian: “bacino del fiume Congo”
- Italian: “Bacino del fiume Congo”
- Japanese: “コンゴ盆地”
- Kazakh: “Конго ойысы”
- Kirghiz: “Конго ойдуңу”
- Korean: “콩고 분지”
- Latvian: “Kongo ieplaka”
- Lithuanian: “Kongo baseinas”
- Macedonian: “Конгоански слив”
- Macedonian: “слив на Конго”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kongobassenget”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kongobassenget”
- Persian: “حوضه کنگو”
- Polish: “Kotlina Konga”
- Polish: “Kotlina Kongo”
- Portuguese: “Bacia do Congo”
- Portuguese: “Bacia do Zaire”
- Russian: “бассейн Конго”
- Russian: “впадина Конго”
- Russian: “Впадина Конго”
- Russian: “Конго впадина”
- Scots: “Congo basin”
- Serbian: “басен Конга”
- Slovak: “Konžská panva”
- Slovak: “povodie Konga”
- Slovenian: “porečje Konga”
- Spanish: “cuenca del Congo”
- Spanish: “Cuenca del Congo”
- Spanish: “cuenca hidrográfica del Congo”
- Swahili: “Bonde la Kongo”
- Swedish: “Kongobäckenet”
- Tatar: “Конго бассейны”
- Tatar: “Конго иңкүлеге”
- Turkish: “Kongo Havzası”
- Ukrainian: “Западина Конго”
- Ukrainian: “Конго синекліза”
- Ukrainian: “Синекліза Конго”
- Urdu: “کانگو طاس”
- Venetian: “Conca del Congo”
- Venetian: “conca del fiume Congo”
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