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Congo (or Kongo or Kongō) is the name of a major river in southern Africa, the Congo River. It is also the name of two countries that border that river: the much larger Democratic Republic of the Congo (capital: Kinshasa), once known as Zaire; and the smaller Republic of the Congo to the northwest (capital: Brazzaville).

The name may also refer to:

• 1 Places
  • 1.1 Africa
    • 1.1.1 Political
    • 1.1.2 Geographic
    • 1.1.3 Historical kingdoms
    • 1.1.4 Administrative regions
  • 1.2 Other places
• 2 Languages and ethnic groups
• 3 Entertainment
  • 3.1 Acting
  • 3.2 Film
  • 3.3 Music
  • 3.4 Print
  • 3.5 Television
• 4 Warships
• 5 Other uses
• 6 People with the surname
• 7 See also

• Democratic Republic of the Congo, or Congo-Kinshasa
  • Zaire, the name of the country under the Mobutu regime (1965–1997)
  • Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) or Congo-Léopoldville (1960–1964)
  • Belgian Congo (1908–1960)
  • Congo Free State (1885-1908)
• Republic of the Congo, or Congo-Brazzaville
  • People''s Republic of the Congo (1970–1991)
  • French Congo (1880–1960)
• Portuguese Congo, now the Angolan exclave of Cabinda Province

• Congo (area), a geographical area in Africa inhabited by Congolese populations
• Congo River, African river also known as Zaire River
• Congo Basin, drainage for the Congo River in west equatorial Africa

• Kingdom of Kongo (1400–1914), covering parts of present-day Angola and the two Congo states
• Kongo dia Nlaza (until late in the 16th century), a former kingdom absorbed by the Kingdom of Kongo

• M''banza-Kongo, capital of Angola''s northwestern Zaire province
• Kongo Central, former Bas-Congo province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Congo, Paraíba, Brazil
• Congo, Alabama, United States
• Congo, West Virginia, United States

• Kongo people or Congolese, an ethnic group in the two Congo states and Angola
• Kongo language

• Kongō, one of the five schools of Noh acting

• Kongo (1932 film), a film starring Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, and Conrad Nagel
• Congo (film), a 1995 film based on Michael Crichton''s novel

• "Congo" (song), a 1997 song by Genesis from Calling All Stations
• Kongos (band), a South African rock band
• The Congos, a reggae vocal group from Jamaica

• Congo (novel), a 1980 novel by Michael Crichton

• Congo (BBC TV series), a 2001 BBC documentary series

• HMS Congo (1816), a steamship for the Royal Navy, United Kingdom
• Japanese corvette Kongō, launched 1877
• Japanese battleship Kongō, launched 1912 as a battlecruiser
  • Kongō-class battlecruiser
• JDS Kongō (DDG-173), a Japanese destroyer launched in 1991
  • Kongō-class destroyer

• Congo (loa), a spirit in Haitian voodoo mythology
• Congo (chimpanzee)
• The Conference of NGOs or CONGO, a worldwide group of charity and aid organizations
• Vajra or Kongō, a Buddhist concept
• Congo (chess variant), a chess variant invented by Demian Freeling

• Kongō Masahiro (born 1948), former sumo wrestler
• John Kongos (born 1945), South African musician, leader of the band Johnny Kongos and the G-Men
• Kid Congo Powers (born 1960), guitarist
• Louis Congo (fl. 1725), emancipated slave appointed public executioner of Louisiana
• Cheick Kongo (born 1975), aka Cheick Guillaume Ouedraogo, French mixed martial arts fighter and kickboxer

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See Also:Democratic Republic of the Congo