Congo
- noun
- /ˈkɒŋɡoʊ/
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río Congo
- The Congo River is vital for transportation and trade in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
There's there's a huge city on one side of the Congo River.
- There's there's a huge city on one side of the Congo River.
Examples
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They all lead into the Congo, and then the Congo comes down right by Kinshasa.
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There's there's a huge city on one side of the Congo River.
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Recently they came in from the Congo in Africa.
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Note where the Congo River is, which is on kind of in the upper third bit of DRC.
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I hear this term W African basin, Congo basin.
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I built my Hut near the Congo, and it lulled me to sleep.
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But it seems that what's going on is bonobos live one side of the Congo River and chimpanzees the other side.
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So you can you can come up the Congo River and then we have an all weather highway and a railway up to Kishashi, the capital.
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It might be drumming from the African musicians in the Congo, drum jungle, or all kinds of world music.
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But wait, if the people who committed the genocide are in the eastern Congo by the border, why are Rwandan troops and allies marching across the country?
Synonyms
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A major river in central Africa that flows to the Atlantic Ocean
The old name for the Congo River in central Africa that flows to the Atlantic Ocean
Compounds
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A former Belgian colony in central Africa that became the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960
A large country in central Africa with many rivers and valuable minerals
- US
A thin water animal that looks like an eel and has two pairs of legs that lives in muddy water
- Specialized
A hard sticky substance from trees in Africa used to make varnish and glue
- US
A long thin water animal like an eel with tiny legs that lives in muddy pools in the southern US
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A serious disease caused by a virus spread by ticks, with high fever and bleeding
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A large family of languages spoken across much of Africa south of the Sahara, like Swahili and Yoruba
Surface Forms
Etymology
Congo comes from the name of the Kongo people and their old Kongo kingdom. Portuguese explorers used that name for the great river that flowed through their land, so the river is still called the Congo.