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Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4466 words) |
 | The Democratic Republic of the Congo (French: République Démocratique du Congo), also referred to as DRC, DR Congo, Congo and Congo-Kinshasa, and formerly Zaire (or Zaïre in French), is a nation in Central Africa and the third largest country on the continent. |
| The Congo territory was acquired formally by Leopold at the Conference of Berlin in 1885. |
| The Congo is situated at the heart of the west-central portion of sub-Saharan Africa and is bounded by (Clockwise from the west) Angola, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania across Lake Tanganyika, and Zambia. |
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