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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 48,700 residents
- Description: city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Also known as: “Zongo, Democratic Republic of the Congo” and “Zongo, Sud-Ubangi”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Embassy of the United States of America and Renaissance Palace.
Embassy of the United States of America
Office building
The Embassy of the United States, Bangui is the diplomatic mission of the United States of America in the Central African Republic. The embassy is located in the capital of the Central African Republic, Bangui.
Renaissance Palace
Building
The Renaissance Palace is the official residence of the President of the Central African Republic, located in the 1st arrondissement of Bangui, at the foot of Gbazabangui Hill and facing the PK zéro.
National Museum Barthelemy Boganda
Museum
The Boganda National Museum, also known as the Barthélémy Boganda National Ethnographic Museum, is a national museum of the Central African Republic. It is located in the Rue du Languedoc region of the capital, Bangui.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bangui.
Bangui
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.
Bangui is the capital of the Central African Republic. Bangui lies on the northern banks of the Ubangi River just below a series of rapids that limit major commercial shipping farther upriver, on the southern border.
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″ northLongitude
18.5946° or 18° 35′ 41″ eastPopulation
48,700Elevation
356 metres (1,168 feet)United Nations Location Code
CD ZGQOpen location code
6FPW8HVV+FROpenStreetMap ID
node 435315432OpenStreetMap 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”
- French: “Zongo (Sud-Ubangi)”
- 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 (ort)”
- Swedish: “Zongo”
- Zulu: “Zongo, Sud-Ubangi”
- Zulu: “Zongo”
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