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The capital is Brazzaville.
It confines to north with Camerun and the Republic Centrafricana,
to east and to south with the Democratic Republic of Congo (ex
Zaire), to south for a short distance with the Angolan exclave
(the part of territory of a sovereign state that lies to the
outside of the confinements of the state) of Cabinda, to southwest
it leans out on the Gulf of Guinea and to west it confines with
the Gabon.
The official language is French.
Congo Brazzaville lies in the heart of Africa: it is constituted
by equatorial forest, a rich savanna, great rich rivers full of
fish.
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The legendary Congo
river is the second greatest
river in the world, after the Rio of Amazonia.
It separates the two nearest capitals of the world: Brazzaville
and Kinshasa (capital of the bordering Rep. Dem. Of Congo),
cities visible to one another by naked eye. They're separated only
by
few kilometers of water ( the width of Congo river reaches 6 km
in some points!) and they're attainable to one another also through
a panoramic trip by boat or aquatic mean. The two Congo, the Democratic Republic and the Popular Republic,
together with Angola, Gabon and the north of Namibia, constituted
the ancient Kingdom of Kongo. With the arrival of the first Europeans
and the colonization this Kingdom was conquered and separated
among these ones; the Democratic Republic of Congo became a Belgian
colony, while the Popular Republic of Congo became a French colony.
The capital of this last one, Brazzaville, takes the name from
the Italian explorer Pier Savorgnan de Brazza, who worked for
the French Navy. He believed that the exchanges between Europe
and Center Africa were based on humanism and brotherhood. He
had to fight against that time conception that conceived colonization
as being 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 on the Atlantic
ocean, then, Congo paradisiacal beaches made of white sand are
framed by palms of various kinds. The abundance of sweet water
fish (rivers) and salty ones (the ocean) constitutes many delicious
local dishes, cooked according to the tradition with vegetables
and accompanied by a base food of manioc.
And also the luxuriant fertile land of Congo offers - besides
what also grows in Occident - peanuts, bananas, bananas platans,
papaya, mango, avocado, ananas…and wine of palm! Responsible
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