Congo Basin

Congo Basin is a region in and is made up by the provinces of Equateur, Oriental and Maniema.
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Congo Basin

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Latitude of center
-0.88° or 0° 52′ 48″ south
Longitude of center
22.35° or 22° 21′ east
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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 versant du Congo”
  • Galician: “Conca fluvial do Congo”
  • Georgian: “კონგოს ღრმული”
  • German: “Kongobecken”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Congo Basin”
  • 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”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Congo Basin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kongobassenget”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kongobassenget”
  • Persian: “حوضه کنگو”
  • Polish: “Kotlina Konga”
  • Polish: “Kotlina Kongo”
  • Portuguese: “Bacia do Congo”
  • Portuguese: “Bacia do Zaire”
  • Romanian: “bazinul Congo”
  • 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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