area now encompassing Kongo Central was part of the greater province of Léopoldville, along with the capital city of Kinshasa and the districts of Kwango...
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of salt. According to Raymackers, Kinshasa was a significant trading site where people from the Lower Congo (now Kongo Central Province) and South Atlantic...
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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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Bundu dia Kongo (Kikongo; lit. "Gathering of Kongo"), known as BDK, is a new religious movement with a political and cultural agenda that is associated...
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Democratic Republic of the Congo (redirect from Congo-Kinshasa)
has about three million members, primarily among the Bakongo of Kongo Central and Kinshasa. Islam has been present in the Democratic 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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the south runs the Luezi River. M'banza-Kongo has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) similar to Kinshasa or Pointe-Noire, characterised by a fairly...
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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 Matadi–Kinshasa Railway (French: Chemin de fer Matadi-Kinshasa) is a railway line in Kongo Central province between Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic...
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Congo River (redirect from Kongo River)
The Congo River (Kongo: Nzâdi Kôngo, Swahili: Mto Kongo, French: Fleuve Congo, Portuguese: Rio Congo), formerly also known as the Zaire River, is the second-longest...
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French Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa), the former Belgian Congo Kongo people, a Bantu ethnic group in the Congo region Congolese...
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The Kongo place stone figures called tumba (a Ki-Kongo word, pl. bitumba) on the graves of powerful people. Bitumba were created in Zaire and Angola during...
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Congolese Civil War (section Congo-Kinshasa)
Africa. Kongo Civil War (1665–1709), in the historic Kingdom of Kongo Civil wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (also known as Congo-Kinshasa and...
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Boma, Democratic Republic of the Congo (redirect from Boma, Kongo Central)
River, some 100 kilometres (62 mi) upstream from the Atlantic Ocean, in the Kongo Central Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), adjacent...
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Nsele Valley Park (category Kinshasa)
subsidiary of Ferme Espoir, an agro-food farm spanning Haut Katanga, Kongo Central, Kinshasa, and North Kivu. The park's geography is characterized by rolling...
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Brazzaville (category Articles containing Kongo-language text)
Brazzaville (French pronunciation: [bʁazavil], Kongo: Ntamo, Ntambo, Kintamo, Kintambo, Tandala, Mavula; Teke: M'fa, Mfaa, Mfa, Mfoa) is the capital and...
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Demokratiske Republik Congo Den demokratiske republikken Kongo Kongo-Kinshasa, Demokratiska republiken Kongo East Timor Østtimor Øst-Timor/Aust-Timor Östtimor...
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The Kinshasa Central Market (French: Marché Central de Kinshasa, formerly known as Marché Publique), colloquially referred to as Zando in Lingala, is...
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National Assembly representing the Kinshasa 2 constituency in Kinshasa, on behalf of the Alliance of Movements of Kongo (AMK), a party within Moïse Katumbi's...
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Mbanza-Ngungu (category Populated places in Kongo Central)
territory in Kongo Central Province in the western part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, lying on a short branch off the Matadi-Kinshasa Railway. It...
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governors (or equivalent) of Kongo Central were: Lists of provincial governors of the Democratic Republic of the Congo "Congo (Kinshasa) Provinces", Rulers.org...
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sixteen years, he taught as a university professor at the University of Kinshasa, Kongo University and Aichi University of Education in Japan. He also worked...
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Central Africa (section Kongo Kingdom)
Kingdom of Kongo under a ruler called the manikongo, residing in the fertile Pool Malebo area on the lower Congo River. The capital was M'banza-Kongo. With...
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the organization served as the major ethno-religious organization for the Kongo people (also known as Bakongo) and became closely intertwined with the Kimbanguist...
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List of countries and dependencies and their capitals in native languages (category Articles containing Kongo-language text)
Republíki ya Kongó Demokratíki Repubilika ya Kôngo ya Dimokalasi Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo Kinshasa Kinsasa Kinsásá Kinshasa French Kongo Lingala Swahili...
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Botschaft in Kinshasa (1962...)". dodis.ch (in German). Retrieved 24 June 2023. "Sveriges statskalender / 1963 / Kongo (förutvarande Belgiska Kongo)" (in Swedish)...
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Muanda Nsemi (category People from Kongo Central)
different towns in the Kongo Central province. He was arrested the following month and admitted to a neuro-psychopathical center in Kinshasa. Some MPs pleaded...
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The city of Kinshasa has had a different status under each of the different regimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kinshasa was alternatively...
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known as Kalina), also known as La Gombe, or Downtown Kinshasa, is one of the 24 communes of Kinshasa, in the western part of the Democratic Republic of...
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Operation Kitona (section Chaos in Kinshasa)
interests by quickly taking control of Kinshasa and the strategic western province of Bas-Congo (today Kongo Central). On August 4, 1998, joint Rwandan...
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