About DR Congo
The DR Congo is a country in Central Africa, one of the 54 countries of Africa on GlobeQuizz. Its full official name is Democratic Republic of the Congo. In Arabic, the name is written الكونغو الديمقراطية, and the capital كينشاسا. Its geographic centre lies in the Northern and Eastern hemispheres.
The capital of the DR Congo is Kinshasa. Kinshasa lies at about 4° south and 15° east. The DR Congo has 5 official languages: French, Kikongo, Lingala, Tshiluba, and Swahili. Its currency is the Congolese Franc, with the symbol FC and the international code CDF.
The DR Congo covers about 2,344,858 square kilometres, which puts it 11th by area among the 195 countries on GlobeQuizz. It shares land borders with 9 countries: Angola, Tanzania, Zambia, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, the Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Burundi, and Rwanda. The largest of these neighbours by area is Angola. Other countries in Central Africa include Chad, Cameroon, and Gabon. To practise flags, capitals and currencies, play the Africa quiz on GlobeQuizz, which mixes the DR Congo with the other countries of the same region.