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.- Type: Town with 48,700 residents
- Description: city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Also known as: “Zongo (ort)”, “Zongo (Sud-Ubangi)”, “Zongo, Democratic Republic of the Congo”, and “Zongo, Sud-Ubangi”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Renaissance Palace and National Museum Barthelemy Boganda.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bangui.
Zongo
- Categories: human settlement, border city, official city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and locality
- Location: Ville de Zongo, Sud-Ubangi, Congo Basin, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
4.3437° or 4° 20′ 37″ north
Longitude
18.5946° or 18° 35′ 41″ east
Population
48,700
Elevation
356 metres (1,168 feet)
UN/LOCODE
CD ZGQ
Open location code
6FPW8HVV+FR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Zulu—“Zongo” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Zongo”
- Chinese: “松戈”
- Danish: “Zongo (DRC)”
- Danish: “Zongo”
- Dutch: “Zongo”
- Finnish: “Zongo”
- French: “Zongo”
- Galician: “Zongo”
- German: “Zongo”
- Hebrew: “זונגו”
- Italian: “Zongo”
- Japanese: “ゾンゴ”
- Lingala: “Zongo (Ubangi ya Sudi)”
- Lingala: “Zongo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zongo”
- Norwegian: “Zongo”
- Polish: “Zongo”
- Portuguese: “Zongo”
- Romanian: “Zongo”
- Russian: “Зонго”
- Scots: “Zongo”
- Spanish: “Zongo”
- Swahili: “Zongo”
- Swedish: “Zongo”
- Urdu: “زونگو، جنوبی اوبانگی (جمہوری جمہوریہ کانگو)”
- Urdu: “زونگو، جنوبی اوبانگی”
- Zulu: “Zongo, Sud-Ubangi”
- Zulu: “Zongo”
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