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Between 1971 and 1997; The Democratic Republic of the Congo was formerly, in turn, the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Congo-Léopoldville, Congo-Kinshasa, and Zaire
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Anglo-American explorer Henry Morton Stanley founded Kinshasa in 1881 as a trading depot on the Congo River.
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Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XAF); note - responsible authority is the Bank of the Central African States
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Lofoi Falls is one of the larger waterfalls, both in volume and height, in central Africa. Total height 540ft. Tallest drop is 540ft. Average width 75ft.
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Democratic Republic of the Congo / Central African Republic / Angola / Republic of the Congo / Tanzania / Cameroon / Zambia / Burundi / Rwanda. For a time known as the Zaire River) is the largest river in Western Central Africa. Its overall length of 4,700 km (2,922 miles) makes it the second longest in Africa (after the Nile).
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4,700 km. Democratic Republic of the Congo / Central African Republic / Angola / Republic of the Congo / Tanzania / Cameroon / Zambia / Burundi / Rwanda. For a time known as the Zaire River) is the largest river in Western Central Africa. Its overall length of 4,700 km (2,922 miles) makes it the second longest in Africa (after the Nile).
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4,700 km. Democratic Republic of the Congo / Central African Republic / Angola / Republic of the Congo / Tanzania / Cameroon / Zambia / Burundi / Rwanda. For a time known as the Zaire River) is the largest river in Western Central Africa. Its overall length of 4,700 km (2,922 miles) makes it the second longest in Africa (after the Nile).
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4,700 km. Democratic Republic of the Congo / Central African Republic / Angola / Republic of the Congo / Tanzania / Cameroon / Zambia / Burundi / Rwanda. For a time known as the Zaire River) is the largest river in Western Central Africa. Its overall length of 4,700 km (2,922 miles) makes it the second longest in Africa (after the Nile).
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4,700 km. Democratic Republic of the Congo / Central African Republic / Angola / Republic of the Congo / Tanzania / Cameroon / Zambia / Burundi / Rwanda. For a time known as the Zaire River) is the largest river in Western Central Africa. Its overall length of 4,700 km (2,922 miles) makes it the second longest in Africa (after the Nile).
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4,700 km. Democratic Republic of the Congo / Central African Republic / Angola / Republic of the Congo / Tanzania / Cameroon / Zambia / Burundi / Rwanda. For a time known as the Zaire River) is the largest river in Western Central Africa. Its overall length of 4,700 km (2,922 miles) makes it the second longest in Africa (after the Nile).
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4,700 km. Democratic Republic of the Congo / Central African Republic / Angola / Republic of the Congo / Tanzania / Cameroon / Zambia / Burundi / Rwanda. For a time known as the Zaire River) is the largest river in Western Central Africa. Its overall length of 4,700 km (2,922 miles) makes it the second longest in Africa (after the Nile).
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6,650 km. Ethiopia / Eritrea / Sudan / Uganda / Tanzania / Kenya / Rwanda / Burundi / Egypt / Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Before 1971. The Democratic Republic of the Congo was formerly, in turn, the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Congo-Léopoldville, Congo-Kinshasa, and Zaire
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The Congo Free State was a corporate state privately controlled by Leopold II, King of the Belgians through a dummy non-governmental organization, the Association Internationale Africaine. The state included the entire area of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo and existed from 1885 to 1908, when it was annexed by the government of Belgium.
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