| Official
Name : |
RÉPUBLIC
DOMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO (Democratic Republic of the Congo) |
| Total
Area: |
2, 334,860
square kilometres |
| Population: |
71,712,000
(2011 estimate). |
| Languages: |
French (official), Mono Kutuba, Lingala (a lingua franca trade language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), Kikongo, Tshiluba.
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| Religions: |
Traditional 70%, Christian 30%. |
| Capital: |
Kinshasa.
population 8.4 million. |
| Currency: |
CFA franc, divided into 100 centimes. |
| Independant: |
30
September 1966, from United Kingdom. |
| Geography: |
Dominated
by the Southern African Plateau running north-south (average elevation 1000m)
that separates the relatively fertile and populous eastern grassland (veld) along
the Limpopo River from the Okavango, Kgalagadi and Kalahari regions in the west.
Over 80% of the country is savannah or scrubland, with actual forest confined
to the Chobe region in the north. The Okavango river is a wonderful curiosity,
ending as the largest inland delta in the world. |
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