Congo may refer to either of two countries that border the Congo River in central Africa:
Kinshasa is the capital and the largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The city is situated alongside the Congo River.
Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo. Constituting the financial and administrative centre of the country, it is located on the north side of the Congo River, opposite Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The population of the capital is estimated to exceed 1.8 million residents, comprising more than a third of the national populace, 40% of whom are employed in non-agricultural professions. During World War II, Brazzaville was also the capital of Free France between 1940 and 1942.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as DR Congo, the DRC, DROC, Congo-Kinshasa, East Congo, or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa. It is sometimes anachronistically referred to by its former name of Zaire, which was its official name between 1971 and 1997. It is, by area, the largest country in Sub-Saharan Africa, the second largest in all of Africa, and the 11th-largest in the world. With a population of over 78 million, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most populous officially Francophone country, the fourth-most-populous country in Africa, and the 16th-most-populous country in the world. Eastern DR Congo has been the scene of ongoing military conflict in Kivu, since 2015.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo national football team, recognised by FIFA as DR Congo, is the national team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is controlled by the Congolese Association Football Federation. They are nicknamed the Leopards.
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There are currently twenty-five provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The capital, Kinshasa city, is administratively equivalent to a province.
The Congolese forests are a broad belt of lowland tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of the Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests Biome, which extends across the basin of the Congo River and its tributaries in Central Africa.
The Republic of the Congo was a sovereign state in Central Africa that was created with the independence of the Belgian Congo in 1960. From 1960 to 1966, the country was often known as Congo-Léopoldville in order to distinguish it from its north-western neighbour, also called the Republic of the Congo or Congo-Brazzaville. With the renaming of Léopoldville as Kinshasa on 1 June 1966, it was known as Congo-Kinshasa until 1971.
Xylorhizini is a tribe of longhorn beetles of the Lamiinae subfamily. It was described by Lacordaire in 1872.
Cymatura is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, containing the following species:
Cymatura nigra is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Franz in 1954. It is known from Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, and Uganda.
Cymatura albomaculata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1950. It is known from Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and possibly Malawi.
Cymatura holonigra is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1954. It is known from Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Cymatura strandi is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1935. It is known from the Ivory Coast, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Cameroon, Guinea, Togo, and Sierra Leone.
Cymatura bifasciata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker in 1855. It is known from South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Swaziland, Malawi, and Zimbabwe. It feeds on Acacia decurrens.
Cymatura mabokensis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning and Pierre Téocchi in 1973. It is known from the Central African Republic.
Cymatura mucorea is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Léon Fairmaire in 1887. It is known from Tanzania, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, and Ethiopia.
Cymatura tarsalis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1914. It is known from Kenya, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It feeds on Terminalia velutina and Parinari excelsa.
