Holds the second largest rainforest on Earth and the deepest river; its Congo River crosses the equator twice.
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Dem. Rep. Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo ยท RD Congo
Africa
ยท Middle Africa
0Population
2.34Mkmยฒ of land
$581GDP / person
KinshasaCapital
- ISO codes
- CD ยท COD
- Density
- 37 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- French, Kikongo, Lingala, Tshiluba, Swahili
- Currency
- Congolese franc (CDF)
- Dial code
- +243
- Internet domain
- .cd
- Time zones
- 2
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 1.8580ยฐ S, 23.4590ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Congolese
- UN region
- Middle Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $50.4B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 9
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By the numbers
How Dem. Rep. Congo stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
16th
of 242 ยท 1.13% of world population
Land area
12th
of 242 ยท 1.56% of world land
GDP per person
227th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
171st
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Dem. Rep. Congo
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 86,790,567 people, the 16th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 1.13 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 2,344,858 kmยฒ, making it the 12th largest country here - about 9.7 times the size of the United Kingdom.
Population density is about 37 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Kinshasa, at 4.33ยฐ S, 15.31ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 7,843,000.
Shares land borders with 8 countries: Angola, Burundi, Central African Rep., Congo and Rwanda (and 3 more).
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Spans 2 time zones, from Africa/Kinshasa to Africa/Lubumbashi.
The currency is the Congolese franc (CDF, symbol FC).
Has 5 official languages: French, Kikongo, Lingala, Tshiluba and Swahili.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Kinshasa
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UTC+01:00
Africa/Lubumbashi
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UTC+02:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Kinshasa
Kinshasa City
4.3278ยฐ S, 15.3130ยฐ E
7.84M
2
Lubumbashi
Katanga
11.6781ยฐ S, 27.4781ยฐ E
1.35M
3
Mbuji-Mayi
Kasaรฏ-Oriental
6.1481ยฐ S, 23.5981ยฐ E
1.3M
4
Kananga
Kasaรฏ-Occidental
5.8881ยฐ S, 22.3981ยฐ E
765K
5
Kikwit
Bandundu
5.0300ยฐ S, 18.8500ยฐ E
637.74K
6
Kisangani
Orientale
0.5200ยฐ N, 25.2200ยฐ E
578.47K
7
Kolwezi
Katanga
10.7167ยฐ S, 25.4724ยฐ E
418K
8
Butembo
Nord-Kivu
0.1300ยฐ N, 29.2800ยฐ E
286.4K
9
Mbandaka
รquateur
0.0400ยฐ N, 18.2600ยฐ E
275K
10
Matadi
Bas-Congo
5.8166ยฐ S, 13.4500ยฐ E
245.86K
Land neighbours
8 countries share a border with Dem. Rep. Congo.