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    coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Kongo Central (Kongo: Kongo dia Kati), formerly Bas-Congo, is one of the 26 provinces of...
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    Kongo or Kikongo is one of the Bantu languages spoken by the Kongo people living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Republic of the Congo...
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    The Kongo people (Kongo: Bisi Kongo, EsiKongo, singular: Musi Kongo; also Bakongo, singular: Mukongo or M'kongo) are a Bantu ethnic group primarily defined...
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  • Kikongo, one of the Bantu languages Kongo languages Kongo people Kongo religion Kongo, Ghana, a town in Ghana Kongo Central, formerly Bas-Congo, a province...
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    The Kingdom of Kongo (Kongo: Kongo dya Ntotila or Wene wa Kongo; Portuguese: Reino do Congo) was a kingdom in Central Africa. It was located in present-day...
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  • The Provincial Assembly of Kongo Central is the provincial legislature of Kongo Central, Democratic Republic of the Congo. François Kimasi Matuiku Basaula...
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    natural border with the Republic of the Congo; to the south lies the Kongo Central Province. Across the river sits Brazzaville, the smaller capital of...
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  • in the Kongo Central (Bas-Congo) province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Bundu dia Kongo supports the creation of an ethnically-Kongo state with...
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    The Kongo cosmogram (also called yowa or dikenga cross, Kikongo: dikenga dia Kongo or tendwa kia nza-n' Kongo) is a core symbol in Bakongo religion that...
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    million believers[citation needed] and has its headquarters in Nkamba, Kongo Central. The denomination became a member of the World Council of Churches,...
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    Agriculture Central Bank Companies Energy Franc (currency) Mining Telecommunications Tourism Transport...
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    some 100 kilometres (62 mi) upstream from the Atlantic Ocean, in the Kongo Central Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), adjacent to...
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    In the Kongo Kingdom and its vassals (Loango, Kakongo, Ngoyo), the woven arts were emblematic of kingship and nobility. The coarse filament stripped from...
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    Congo (redirect from The Kongos)
    Look up Congo or Kongo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Congo may refer to: Congo River, in central Africa Congo Basin, the sedimentary basin of the...
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    Kongō (金剛, named for Mount Kongō) was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I and World War II. She was the first battlecruiser of the...
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    This list of governors of Kongo Central includes governors of the Kongo Central Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in the period from when it...
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    them. The religion of the Kongo is deeply complex. According to historians John K. Thornton and Linda M. Heywood, "Central Africans have probably never...
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  • name Province Town name Coordinates UN/Locode Remarks Port of Matadi Kongo Central Matadi 5°59′S 13°27′E / 5.983°S 13.450°E / -5.983; 13.450 (Port...
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  • Kenge is a town in Kongo Central province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kenge is served by a station on the national railway system. Railway...
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    by Central African foragers around 90,000 years ago and was reached by the Bantu expansion about 3,000 years ago. In the west, the Kingdom of Kongo ruled...
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    ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo from the Lukeni kanda dynasty and ruled in the first half of the 16th century. He reigned over the Kongo Empire from 1509 to...
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    Joseph Kasa-Vubu (category People from Kongo Central)
    Republic of the Congo until 1964) from 1960 until 1965. A member of the Kongo ethnic group, Kasa-Vubu became the leader of the Alliance des Bakongo (ABAKO)...
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    Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo: The provinces of Bandundu, Équateur, Kinshasa, Kongo Central, Kwango...
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    Matadi (category Populated places in Kongo Central)
    port of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the capital of the Kongo Central province, adjacent to the border with Angola. It had a population of...
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    Franco Luambo (category People from Kongo Central)
    François Luambo Luanzo Makiadi (6 July 1938 – 12 October 1989) was a Congolese musician. He was a major figure in 20th-century Congolese music, and African...
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    Simon Kimbangu (category People from Kongo Central)
    Simon Kimbangu (September 12, 1887 – October 12, 1951) was a Congolese religious leader who founded the Christian new religious movement Kimbanguism. Kimbanguists...
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  • M'Pongo Love (category People from Kongo Central)
    Aimee Françoise M'Pongo Langu (27 August 1956 – 15 January 1990), known professionally as M'Pongo Love, was a Congolese singer and songwriter. First taking...
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    halfway between the meridians of Eastern and Central time), which kept local time until 1900, then tried Central Standard Time, local mean time, and Eastern...
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  • Kitona (category Populated places in Kongo Central)
    Kitona is a town of about 4,000 persons[citation needed] in the Bas-Congo province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located to the southwest...
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    well-known traditions. Bantu mythology (Central, Southeast, Southern Africa) Bushongo mythology (Congo) Kongo religion (Congo) Lugbara mythology (Congo)...
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