Congo Brazzaville

The Repub­lic of Congo, known also as Congo-Brazzaville, is a State of Cen­tral Africa and a French ex-colony.

Carte Congo

The cap­i­tal is Braz­zav­ille (city of Brazza). Congo Braz­zav­ille con­fines on north with Camerun and the Cen­tral African Repub­lic , on east and south with the Demo­c­ra­tic Repub­lic of Congo (ex Zaire), on west with Gabon, on south - for a short dis­tance - with the Angolan enclave of Cabinda and, on south-west, Congo leans out on the Atlantic Ocean.
Congo's offi­cial lan­guage is French.
Congo Braz­zav­ille lies in the very heart of Africa and it is con­sti­tuted by equa­to­r­ial for­est, a rich savanna, great rich rivers full of fish.
The leg­endary Congo river is the sec­ond great­est river in the world, right after the Ama­zon river of Brasil. Congo river sep­a­rates the two clos­est cap­i­tal cities of the world: Braz­zav­ille and Kin­shasa (the lat­ter one is the cap­i­tal city of Congo's con­fin­ing Coun­try the Rep. Dem. of Congo). These two cities are vis­i­ble to one another with the naked eye. They're sep­a­rated from each other only by few kilo­me­ters of water ( the width of Congo river reaches 6 km in some points!) and they're attain­able to one another through a panoramic trip by boat or aquatic means.
The two Con­gos, the Demo­c­ra­tic Repub­lic one and the Pop­u­lar Repub­lic one, together with Angola, Gabon and north­ern Namibia, con­sti­tuted the ancient King­dom of Kongo. With the arrival of the first Euro­peans and their col­o­niza­tion, this King­dom was con­quered and sep­a­rated among Euro­pean coun­tries: the Demo­c­ra­tic Repub­lic of Congo became a Bel­gian colony, while the Pop­u­lar Repub­lic of Congo became a French colony.
The cap­i­tal city of Congo Braz­zav­ille takes its name from the Ital­ian native explorer Pier Savorgnan de Brazza, who worked for the French Navy. Pier believed that the exchanges between Europe and Cen­tral Africa should have been based on human­ism and broth­er­hood. Pier had to fight against the con­cep­tion for which col­o­niza­tion was solely slav­ery and loot­ing. Brazza paid with his own life this dif­fer­ent approach to African com­mu­ni­ties; it was the year 1905.
The for­est of Congo is the sec­ond greater pri­mary for­est of the planet after the Ama­zon­ian one. Lean­ing out to the Atlantic ocean, Congo has got par­a­disi­a­cal beaches made of white sand and framed by palms of var­i­ous kinds. The abun­dance of sweet water fish (from rivers) and salty water ones (from the ocean) enriches the deli­cious local dishes. Fish is cooked - fol­low­ing the Con­golese tra­di­tion - with veg­eta­bles and it's accom­pa­nied by man­ioc.
Finally, the lux­u­ri­ant and fer­tile land of Congo offers - beside what grows already in Occi­dent - peanuts, bananas, pla­tan bananas, papaya, mango, avo­cado, ananas… and palm wine!

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