africa the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean
goma a city in eastern Congo at the northern end of Lake Kivu near the border with Rwanda
kananga,
luluabourg a city in southwestern Congo; former name (until 1966) was Luluabourg
kinshasa,
leopoldville the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville
elisabethville,
lubumbashi a city in southeastern Congo near the border with Zambia; a copper mining center; former name (until 1966) was Elisabethville
kasai,
kasai river,
river kasai a river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo
kivu,
lake kivu a lake in the mountains of central Africa between Congo and Rwanda
lake edward a lake in the Great Rift Valley between Congo and Uganda
chiluba,
luba a Bantu language spoken in southeastern Congo
congolese a native or inhabitant of the Republic of the Congo
The Republic of Zaire was the name of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo between 27 October 1971 and 17 May 1997. The name of Zaire derives from the Portuguese: Zaire, itself an adaptation of the Kongo word nzere or nzadi, or "the river that swallows all rivers". The country was known as the Belgian Congo up until its independence in June 1960.
