Congo meaning

kŏng'gō
A country of west-central Africa with a short coastline on the Atlantic Ocean. It was part of French Equatorial Africa before becoming independent in 1960. A Marxist state was established in 1970, but in the early 1990s Marxism was abandoned in favor of a multiparty system, and a new constitution was adopted. Brazzaville is the capital and the largest city.
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River in central Africa, flowing through the Democratic Republic of the Congo into the Atlantic: 2,718 mi (4,374 km)
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Country in central Africa, on the equator: 905,568 sq mi (2,345,410 sq km); cap. Kinshasa: formerly Belgian Congo (1908-60); Congo (1960-71); Zaire (1971-97)
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Country in WC Africa, west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: 132,047 sq mi (342,000 sq km); cap. Brazzaville: formerly People's Republic of the Congo (1970-90)
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A country of central Africa astride the equator. Inhabited originally by Pygmy peoples and later by migrating Bantu and Nilotic groups, the region came under the control of Leopold II of Belgium in the late 1870s and was annexed outright in 1908. Full independence was achieved in 1960. Army general Mobutu Sese Seko took control of the country in 1965, ruling until his ouster by rebel forces in 1997. Kinshasa is the capital and the largest city.
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Congo Sentence Examples

  • Louis Franck, the Belgian Colonial Minister, paid a visit to the Congo in 1920.

  • Many of the old agents of the Congo State had to be retained.

  • Stanley's discoveries "Congo" has become the general name for the river from its mouth to Stanley Falls, despite an effort on the part of Stanley to have the stream re-named Livingstone.

  • In 1921 a seaplane service was started along the Congo river from Stanley Pool to Stanley Falls.

  • See A Manual of Belgian Congo, a British Admiralty publication (1920); M.

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