Congo

Congo, Kongo, or Kongō may refer to:

Places

  Republic of the Congo

  Democratic Republic of the Congo

Africa

Political –

• Democratic Republic of the Congo, or Congo-Kinshasa
  • Zaire, the name of the country under Mobutu regime (1965–1997)
  • Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) (1960–1964)
  • Belgian Congo (1908–1960)
  • Congo Free State(1885-1908)
• Republic of the Congo, or Congo-Brazzaville
  • People's Republic of the Congo (1970–1991)
  • French Congo (1880–1960)

Geographic –

• Congo River, African river also known as Zaire River
• Congo (area), a geographical area in Africa
• Congo Basin, drainage for the Congo River in west equatorial Africa

Historical kingdoms –

• Kingdom of Kongo (1400–1914), covering parts of present-day Angola and the two Congo states
• Kongo dia Nlaza (until late in the 16th century), a former kingdom absorbed by the Kingdom of Kongo

Administrative regions –

• Portuguese Congo, now the Angolan exclave of Cabinda
• M'banza-Kongo, capital of Angola's northwestern Zaire province
• Kongo Central, former Bas-Congo province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Other places

• Congo, Paraíba, Brazil
• Congo, County Tyrone, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• Congo, West Virginia, USA
• Mount Kongō Japan
• Congo Town, the Bahamas
• Congo Village, part of the city Diego Martin in Trinidad

Languages and ethnic groups

• Kongo people or Congolese, an ethnic group in the two Congo states and Angola
• Kongo language

Film and television

• Congo (BBC TV series), a 2001 BBC documentary series
• Kongo (1932 film), a film starring Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, and Conrad Nagel
• Congo (novel), a 1980 novel by Michael Crichton
• Congo (film), a 1995 film based on Michael Crichton's novel

Music and theater

• The Congos, a reggae vocal group from Jamaica
• "Congo" (song), a 1997 song by Genesis from Calling All Stations
• Kongō, one of the five schools of Noh acting
• Kongos (band), a South African rock band

Warships

• HMS Congo (1816), a steamship for the Royal Navy, United Kingdom
• Japanese corvette Kongō, launched 1877
• Japanese battleship Kongō, launched 1912 as a battlecruiser
  • Kongō-class battlecruiser
• JDS Kongō (DDG-173), a Japanese destroyer launched in 1991
  • Kongō-class destroyer

Other uses

• Congo (loa), a spirit in Haitian voodoo mythology
• Congo (chimpanzee)
• The Conference of NGOs or CONGO, a worldwide group of charity and aid organizations
• Vajra or Kongō, a Buddhist concept

People with the surname

• Kongō Masahiro (born 1948), former sumo wrestler
• John Kongos (born 1945), South African musician, leader of the band Johnny Kongos and the G-Men
• Kid Congo Powers (born 1960), guitarist
• Louis Congo (fl. 1725), emancipated slave appointed public executioner of Louisiana
• Cheick Kongo (born 1975), aka Cheick Guillaume Ouedraogo, French mixed martial arts fighter and kickboxer

See also

• Conga (disambiguation)
• Congo craton, one of the cratons making the African continental crust
• Kakongo, former kingdom
• All pages beginning with "Congo"
• All pages with titles containing "Congo"
• All pages beginning with "Kongo"
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