Congo occurs as title divided up by 2 neighboring countries around Central Africa, unremarkably distinguished either by utilizing their fully official list or even adding their upper case:

The Republic of the Congo is often referred to as "Congo-Brazzaville". These are a smaller of the deuce and lies to the west. It was it used to be that the French colony & section of French Equatorial Africa.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is sometimes referred to as "Congo-Kinshasa" or even just DRC. These are a larger of the ii and lies to the east. It was while a personalized property of King Leopold II of Belgium, when it was referred to as a Congo Free State, and late a Belgian colony whenever it was renamed the Belgian Congo. It was known as Zaire from 1971 to 1997 (during which instance a more Congo can only exist as known as Congo forswearing modifier).

Congo might too refer to:

Congo craton, a pre-prehistoric continent Kongo Kingdom, which was once under Portuguese "protection" in the period of section of its existence Congo River, which drains both a above-above-named countries A spirit within voodoo Congo (novel), a novel by Michael Crichton Congo (film), a film according to Crichton's novel; see Congo music, a genre of Afro Latino music around Panama & Brazil; underst& and dance Soukous, a genre of music, every now and again called Congo a chimpanzee who has produced works of art under the counsel of animal scientist & creative person Desmond Morris

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