Congo Hotels

Hotels in the Congo are often required for people who need accommodation in the Congo. The Congo is an area of great envoronmental interest. It is an area that attracts some for sport, cultural, environmental, entertainment, work, study and diplomacy. These people will often beed a hotel to stay at. Cheap, luxury, large, small, hotels may be in demand.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo , often referred to as DR Congo, DRC or RDC, and formerly known or referred to as Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Congo-Léopoldville, Congo-Kinshasa, and Zaire (or Zaïre in French), is the third largest country by area in Africa. Though it is located in the Central African UN subregion, the nation is economically and regionally affiliated with Southern Africa as a member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It borders the Central African Republic and Sudan on the north, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi on the east, Zambia and Angola on the south, the Republic of the Congo on the west, and is separated from Tanzania by Lake Tanganyika on the east. The country enjoys access to the ocean through a forty-kilometre stretch of Atlantic coastline at Muanda and the roughly nine-kilometre wide mouth of the Congo river which opens into the Gulf of Guinea. The name "Congo" (meaning "hunter") is coined after the Bakongo ethnic group who live in the Congo river basin.

Kinshasa (formerly French: Léopoldville, formerly Dutch: Leopoldstad, German: Leopoldstadt)) is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Also known as Congo Kinshasa, it is located on the Congo River.

The Congo River (for a time known as the Zaire River) is the largest river in Western Central Africa. The sources of the Congo are in the highlands and mountains of the East African Rift, as well as Lake Tanganyika and Lake Mweru, which feed the Lualaba River, which then becomes the Congo below Boyoma Falls. The Chambeshi River in Zambia is generally taken as the source of the Congo in line with the accepted practice worldwide of using the longest tributary, as with the Nile River. The Congo flows generally westards from Kisangani just below the falls, then gradually bends southwestwards, passing by Mbandaka, joining with the Ubangi River, and running into the Pool Malebo (Stanley Pool). Kinshasa (formerly Léopoldville) and Brazzaville are on opposite sides of the river at the Pool, where the river narrows and falls through a number of cataracts in deep canyons (collectively known as the Livingstone Falls), running by Matadi and Boma, and into the sea at the small town of Muanda. The Congo River Basin is one of the distinct physiographic sections of the larger Mid-African province, which in turn is part of the larger African massive physiographic division.
The Congo is situated at the heart of the west-central portion of sub-Saharan Africa and is bounded by (clockwise from the southwest) Angola, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania across Lake Tanganyika, and Zambia. The country straddles the Equator, with one-third to the north and two-thirds to the south. The size of Congo, 2,345,408 square kilometres (905,567 sq mi), is comparable to that of Western Europe.

As a result of its equatorial location in Africa, the Congo experiences large amounts of precipitation and has the highest frequency of thunderstorms on Earth. The annual rainfall can total upwards of 80 inches (200 cm) in some places, and the area sustains the second largest rain forest in the world (after the Amazon). This massive expanse of lush jungle covers most of the vast, low-lying central basin of the river, which slopes toward the Atlantic Ocean in the west. This area is surrounded by plateaus merging into savannas in the south and southwest, by mountainous terraces in the west, and dense grasslands extending beyond the Congo River in the north. High, glaciated mountains are found in the extreme eastern region.

Cities, towns and villages in the Democratic Republic of the Cong

Aba, Banana, Bandundu Basankusu, Beni, Nord-Kivu, Bikoro, Boende, Bolenge, Boma, Bondo, Bukavu, Bumba, Bunia, Buta, Butembo, Dubie, Dungu, Fizi, Gandajika, Gbadolite, Gemena, Goma, Ikela, Ilebo, Isiro, Kalemie, Kamina, Kananga, Karuba, Kasumbalesa, Kikwit, Kiliba, Kindu, Kinshasa, Kisangani, Kisantu, Kitona, Kole, Kolwezi, Lamba, Libenge, Likasi, Lisala, Lodja, Lubumbashi, Lukolela, Matadi, Mbandaka, Mbanza-Ngungu, Mbuji-Mayi, Mobaye Mbongo, Mobayi-Mbongo, Muanda, Mulungwishi, Musumba, Mweka, Mwene-Ditu, Nyangwe, Rutshuru, Sakania, Sake, Shinkolobwe, Tshela, Tshikapa, Uvira, Vivi, Yambuku, Zinga, Zongo

In Africa Congo, Kongo, or Kongo- may refer to may refer to

Congo River, an African river
Republic of the Congo, ("Congo-Brazzaville") an African country to the west of the Congo River
French Congo (1880-1910)
Democratic Republic of the Congo ("Congo-Kinshasa"), an African country to the east of the Congo River
Congo Free State (1885-1908)
Belgian Congo (1908-1960)
Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) (1960-1964)
Zaire (1971 – 1997)
Kingdom of Kongo (1400-1914), which comprised parts of present-day Angola, Cabinda, the Republic of the Congo, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kongo dia Nlaza, small eastern kingdom absorbed into the Kingdom of Kongo in the 16th century
Kongo people, an ethnic group in both Congos and Angola, sometimes referred to as Congolese
Kongo language, sometimes called Kikongo, the Bantu language spoken by the Kongo people, and the base for the Kituba language
Portuguese Congo, now the Angolan exclave of Cabinda
Congo craton, an ancient and stable piece of continental crust
M'banza-Kongo, the capital of Angola's northwestern Zaire Province
Kongo Central, the former Bas-Congo province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Congolian forests, the Congo basin forests.