Its capital Brazzaville faces Kinshasa across the river - the closest pair of capital cities in the world.
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Congo
Republic of the Congo ยท Rรฉpublique du Congo
Africa
ยท Middle Africa
0Population
342Kkmยฒ of land
$2.28KGDP / person
BrazzavilleCapital
- ISO codes
- CG ยท COG
- Density
- 16 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- French, Kikongo, Lingala
- Currency
- Central African CFA franc (XAF)
- Dial code
- +242
- Internet domain
- .cg
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 0.1420ยฐ N, 15.9010ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Congolese
- UN region
- Middle Africa
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $12.27B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 5
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By the numbers
How Congo stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
119th
of 242 ยท 0.07% of world population
Land area
66th
of 242 ยท 0.23% of world land
GDP per person
183rd
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
207th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Congo
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 5,380,508 people, the 119th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,427 of everyone alive.
Covers 342,000 kmยฒ, making it the 66th largest country here - about 11.2 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 16 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Brazzaville, at 4.26ยฐ S, 15.28ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,355,000.
Shares land borders with 5 countries: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Rep., Dem. Rep. Congo and Gabon.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Brazzaville.
The currency is the Central African CFA franc (XAF, symbol Fr).
Has 3 official languages: French, Kikongo and Lingala.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Brazzaville
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UTC+01:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Brazzaville
Pool
4.2572ยฐ S, 15.2827ยฐ E
1.36M
2
Pointe-Noire
Kouilou
4.7700ยฐ S, 11.8800ยฐ E
659.08K
3
Kayes
Bouenza
4.1800ยฐ S, 13.2800ยฐ E
62.52K
Land neighbours
5 countries share a border with Congo.