Congo River

The Congo River (for a time known as Zaire River) is the largest river in Western Central Africa. Its overall length of 4,700 km (2,922 miles) makes it the second longest in Africa (after the Nile). The river and its tributaries flow through the second largest rain forest area in the world, second only to the Amazon Rainforest in South America. The river also has the second-largest flow in the world, behind the Amazon, and the second-largest watershed of any river, again trailing the Amazon; its watershed is slightly larger than that of the Mississippi River. Because large sections of the river basin lie above and below the equator, its flow is stable, as there is always at least one river experiencing a rainy season. The Congo gets its name from the ancient Kingdom of Kongo which inhabited the lands at the mouth of the river. The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo, both countries lying along the river's banks, are named after it. Between 1971 and 1997 the government of then-Zaire called it the Zaire River.
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Congo river est un un film documentaire franco-belge de Thierry Michel, sorti en 2006, sur le fleuve Congo.
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Le fleuve Congo est le second plus long fleuve d’Afrique, et le premier pour son débit. Il sert de frontière naturelle entre la République démocratique du Congo et la République du Congo.
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Der 4.400 km lange Kongo (auch Congo und Zaire, also Fluss oder Wasser) ist der größte (nach dem Einzugsgebiet), zweitlängste und wasserreichste Strom in Afrika und sogar der zweitwasserreichste der Erde. Sein Einzugsgebiet liegt hauptsächlich in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo (nachfolgend DR Kongo genannt), wo er durch das riesige Kongobecken fließt.
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Kongo - w górnym biegu Lualaba, rzeka w Afryce Równikowej, uchodzi do Oceanu Atlantyckiego. Płynie przez Demokratyczną Republikę Konga, Republikę Konga i Angolę. Druga, co do długości, rzeka w Afryce. Jej zlewnia pokrywa 12% kontynentu. Długość - 4 700 km. Powierzchnia - 3 690 000 km². Średni roczny przepływ przy ujściu - 40 000 m³/s. Roczny odpływ - ok.1 260 km³.
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Il fiume Congo, lungo 4.700 km, è dopo il Nilo, il secondo fiume più lungo dell'Africa ed è il secondo fiume al mondo per portata d'acqua e ampiezza del bacino (dopo il Rio delle Amazzoni). Dà il suo nome alla Repubblica Democratica del Congo e alla Repubblica del Congo, due Stati bagnati dalle sue acque, e all'antico Regno del Kongo. Tra il 1971 e il 1997 il governo dell'allora Zaire indicava il fiume col nome fiume Zaire.
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