Middle Africa
Flag of DR Congo
The beating green heart of Africa.
Colours, by share of the flag
- #0078f0 64%
- #c00018 17%
- #f0c018 7%
Measured from the flag artwork itself, so shares are approximate and emblems get folded into the nearest tone.
DR Congo in numbers
| Official name | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
|---|---|
| Capital | Kinshasa |
| Region | Middle Africa, Africa |
| Population | 108,407,721 |
| Area | 2,344,858 km² · 46 people per km² |
| Currency | Congolese franc (CDF) |
| Languages | French |
| Country codes | CD · COD · .cd |
| Coastline | Has a coast |
Things worth knowing
- The Congo River is the world's deepest, plunging in places to over 220 metres, dark enough to host fish that evolved in near-total blackness.
- Its rainforest is the second largest on Earth after the Amazon, a carbon sink so vast it helps regulate the planet's climate.
- It is home to the bonobo, our peaceable great-ape cousin found nowhere else in the wild, who resolves conflict through affection rather than aggression.
Did you know
The okapi, the giraffe's only living relative yet striped like a zebra, was unknown to outside science until 1901 and still roams only these forests.
Neighbours
- Angola
- Burundi
- Central African Republic
- Republic of the Congo
- Rwanda
- South Sudan
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Zambia
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Country data from the mledoze/countries dataset under ODbL 1.0. Flag artwork from the same dataset. All 196 flags.