Congo

Congo, Kongo, or Kongō may refer to:

(Primarily from Kingdom of Kongo and related African names, also Japanese 金剛 Kongō, indestructible.)

Places

Africa

  Republic of the Congo

  Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Congo (area), a general term for a geographical area in Africa that refers mainly to present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa, Zaire, Belgian Congo) and/or Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville, French Congo), but also to Cabinda, an exclave of Angola lying between the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Portuguese Congo)
• Democratic Republic of the Congo (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 (Congo-Brazzaville)
  • People's Republic of the Congo (1970–1991)
  • French Congo (1880–1960)
• Congo River, African river also known as Zaire River
• Congo Basin, drainage for the Congo River in west equatorial Africa
• 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
• 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

• Congo Village, part of the city Diego Martin in Trinidad
• Congo, West Virginia, USA
• Congo, Paraíba, Brazil
• Congo Town, the Bahamas

Languages and ethnic groups

• Kongo people (Congolese), an ethnic group in the two Congo states and Angola
• Kongo language, language spoken by above ethnic group.

Entertainment and media

• Congo River, Beyond Darkness, 2005 film by Thierry Michel
• A Daughter of the Congo, 1930 film by Oscar Micheaux
• King of the Congo, 1952 film serial by Columbia Pictures
• The King of the Kongo, 1929 film serial by Mascot Pictures
• Congo (BBC TV series), a 2001 BBC documentary film
• Kongo (1932 film), starring Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, and Conrad Nagel
• The Congos, a reggae vocal group from Jamaica, formed in the mid-1970s
• Kongō, one of the five schools of Noh acting
• Congo (novel), a novel by Michael Crichton
• Congo (film), a 1995 film based on Michael Crichton's novel
• King Leopold's Ghost, a journalist's historical account of Leopold's Congo, by Adam Hochschild

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

Warships

• HMS Congo (1816), first steamship for the Royal Navy, United Kingdom

Japanese battleships sometimes use the name Indestructible (金剛, Kongō):

• Japanese corvette Kongō (launched 1877)
• Japanese battleship Kongō (launched 1912)
• JDS Kongō (DDG-173) (launched 1991), Japanese destroyer
• Kongō-class destroyer, any of four modern Japanese warships (launched 1991–96), including JDS Kongō

Other uses

• Congo (loa), a spirit in Haitian voodoo mythology
• The Conference of NGOs (CONGO), a worldwide group of charity and aid organizations
• Yawara (Kong), a martial arts weaponry
• Congo (chimpanzee)
• Vajra, Buddhist concept, called 金剛 Kongō in Japanese

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"
• All pages with titles containing "Kongo"