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Congo River   /kˈɑŋgoʊ rˈɪvər/   Listen
Congo River

noun
1.
A major African river (one of the world's longest); flows through Congo into the South Atlantic.  Synonyms: Congo, Zaire River.






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"Congo River" Quotes from Famous Books



... mass by as sharply-defined a line of separation as is the black leaden-colored investment of the white granit blocks* which I brought from the cataracts of the Orinoco, and which are also associated with many other cataracts, as, for instance, those of the Nile and of the Congo River. ...
— COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 • Alexander von Humboldt

... seaport belonging to Portugal, at the mouth of the Loje River, in 7 deg. 50' S., 13 deg. E., some 70 m. N. of Loanda. It forms a part of the province of Angola (q.v.). The town is within the free-trade area of the conventional basin of the Congo river. Its chief exports are rubber, gum, coffee and copper. Pop. about 2500. Ambriz was, previously to 1884, the northernmost point of Africa south of the equator acknowledged ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia



Words linked to "Congo River" :   Democratic Republic of the Congo, Belgian Congo, zaire, congo, river



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