Congo may refer to either of two countries that border the Congo River in central Africa:
Katanga was one of the four large provinces created in the Belgian Congo in 1914. It was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami, Lualaba, and Haut-Katanga provinces. Between 1971 and 1997, its official name was Shaba Province.
Kinshasa, formerly Léopoldville, is the capital and the largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With a total population of 15 million as of 2021, it is the most populous city in Africa.
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, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DROC, the DRC, or simply either Congo or the Congo, and formerly Zaire, is a country in Central Africa. 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 around 105 million, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most populous officially Francophone country in the world, as well as the fourth-most populous country in Africa and the 15th-most populous country in the world. It is a member of the United Nations, Non-Aligned Movement, African Union, and COMESA. Since 2015, the Eastern DR Congo has been the site of an ongoing military conflict in Kivu. The capital and largest city is Kinshasa.
Ubangi-Shari was a French colony in central Africa, a part of French Equatorial Africa.
The DR Congo national football team, recognised by FIFA as Congo DR, represents the Democratic Republic of the Congo in men's international football and it is controlled by the Congolese Association Football Federation. They are nicknamed the Leopards., The team is a member of FIFA and the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
The Congo Basin is the sedimentary basin of the Congo River. The Congo Basin is located in Central Africa, in a region known as west equatorial Africa. The Congo Basin region is sometimes known simply as the Congo. It contains some of the largest tropical rainforests in the world and is an important source of water used in agriculture and energy generation.
The Congolian rainforests are a broad belt of lowland tropical moist broadleaf forests which extend 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, created with the independence of the Belgian Congo in 1960. From 1960 to 1966, the country was also known as Congo-Léopoldville to distinguish it from its northwestern neighbor, which is also called the Republic of the Congo, alternatively known as "Congo-Brazzaville". In 1964, the state's official name was changed to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but the two countries continued to be distinguished by their capitals; with the renaming of Léopoldville as Kinshasa in 1966, it became also known as Congo-Kinshasa. After Joseph Désiré Mobutu, commander-in-chief of the national army, seized control of the country, it became the Republic of Zaire in 1971. It would again become the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997. The period between 1960 and 1965 is referred to as the First Congolese Republic.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Democratic Republic of the Congo:
The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located in the western coast of Central Africa. The country is bordered to the west by Gabon, to its northwest by Cameroon and its northeast by the Central African Republic, to the southeast by the DR Congo, to its south by the Angolan exclave of Cabinda and to its southwest by the Atlantic Ocean. French is the official language of the Republic of the Congo.
Homelix is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, containing the following species:
Homelix liturata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Quedenfeldt in 1882. It is known from Tanzania, Angola, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and possibly from the Ivory Coast.
Homelix morini is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Pierre Téocchi in 1999. It is known from Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Central African Republic.
Homelix variegata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Karl Jordan in 1894. It is known from the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Gabon. It feeds on Coffea canephora.
Homelix decussata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Chevrolat in 1856, originally under the genus Pachystola. It is known from Nigeria, the Ivory Coast, Cameroon, and the Republic of the Congo. It feeds on Coffea canephora.
Homelix klingi is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Kolbe in 1893. It is known from the Central African Republic, Sierra Leone, the Ivory Coast, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Tanzania, Cameroon, Togo, and Zambia.
