The Congo Basin (French: Bassin du Congo) is the sedimentary basin of the Congo River. The Congo Basin is located in Central Africa, in a region known...

Equator twice. The Congo Basin has a total area of about 4,000,000 km2 (1,500,000 sq mi), or 13% of the entire African landmass. The name Congo/Kongo originates...

Look up Congo or Kongo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Congo may refer to: Congo River, in central Africa Congo Basin, the sedimentary basin of the...

Colonization of the Congo Basin refers to the European colonization of the Congo Basin of tropical Africa. It was the last part of the continent to be...

Angola, and the South Atlantic Ocean. Centered on the Congo Basin, the territory of the Congo was first inhabited by Central African foragers around...

trade. Via the International Association of the Congo, he was able to lay claim to most of the Congo Basin. On 29 May 1885, after the closure of the Berlin...

lies within the vast hollow of the Congo River basin. The vast, low-lying central area is a plateau-shaped basin sloping toward the west, covered by...

at least 3,000 years ago, who built trade links leading into the Congo River basin. From the 13th century the present day territory was dominated by...

Africa") are a group of ethnicities native to Central Africa, mostly the Congo Basin, traditionally subsisting on a forager and hunter-gatherer lifestyle...

The Congo peafowl (Afropavo congensis), also known as the African peafowl or mbulu by the Bakôngo, is a species of peafowl native to the Congo Basin. It...

tropical near-passerine birds found in the Old World. The Congo pied hornbill is native to the Congo Basin. This is a bird of mainly forest habitats. The female...

lowland tropical moist broadleaf forests which extend across the basin of the Congo River and its tributaries in Central Africa. The Congolian rainforest...

supposedly philanthropic organisation run by Leopold II, to most of the Congo Basin region. Leopold had long held ambitions for colonial expansion. The territory...

including Fiji (once nicknamed the "Cannibal Isles"), the Amazon Basin, the Congo, and the Māori people of New Zealand. Cannibalism was also practised...

The Congo Craton, covered by the Palaeozoic-to-recent Congo Basin, is an ancient Precambrian craton that with four others (the Kaapvaal, Zimbabwe, Tanzania...

The Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) is a non-profit initiative to promote the conservation and responsible management of the Congo Basin's tropical...

travelled into the western Congo basin, and raised the French flag over the newly founded Brazzaville in what is now the Republic of Congo. Finally, Portugal...

government to support colonial expansion around the then-largely unexploited Congo Basin. Their ambivalence resulted in Leopold establishing a colony himself...

are now typically considered part of East or Southern Africa. The Congo River basin has historically been ecologically significant to the populations...

cannibalism seems to have been especially prevalent in parts of the Congo Basin. While some groups rejected the custom, others indulged in human flesh...

term associated with the African Pygmies, the hunter-gatherers of the Congo Basin (comprising the Bambenga, Bambuti and Batwa). The terms "Asiatic pygmies"...

of their expansion are extremely scarce. At the 4th millennium BC the Congo Basin was inhabited by the Bambenga, Bayaka, Bakoya, and Babongo in the west...

19th century, cannibalism was practised widely in the some parts of the Congo Basin, with slaves being frequent victims. Many "healthy children" had to die...

resources concerned. The drainage area of the basin covers Burundi, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South...

countries and regions: Congo Basin, the sedimentary basin of the Congo River Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), the former French Congo Democratic Republic...

warlords associated with the Arab slave trade in the eastern regions of the Congo Basin between 1892 and 1894. The war was caused by the Free State and the Arabs...

for the exploitation of the Congo. The goals of the International Congo Society was to establish control of the Congo Basin and to exploit its economic...

the Congo (IAC) had signed treaties with over 300 native Congolese chiefs and in effect exercised sovereignty over a large area of the Congo Basin. The...

navigable waters. North of the Congo basin, and separated from it by a broad undulation of the surface, is the basin of Lake Chad — a flat-shored, shallow...

The Congo–Nile Divide or the Nile–Congo Watershed is the continental divide that separates the drainage basins of the Congo and Nile rivers. It is about...