Worth knowing
DR Congo
The Congo is about 220 metres deep in places, too deep for light to reach the bottom. Because it drains land on both sides of the equator, rain feeds it all year round.
Where its story happens
The Congo River at Kinshasa, at 4.32°S, 15.31°E. It's the place the game marks on the globe once the country is found. See it on a map.
Five things to know about the DR Congo
In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the middling countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.
- Where it is. It's DR Congo, the huge country in the heart of Africa: the larger of the two Congos, capital Kinshasa. See the DR Congo on a map.
- It was called Zaire from 1971 to 1997, and its capital is Kinshasa.
- In 1974 Muhammad Ali beat George Foreman here in the fight known as the Rumble in the Jungle.
- The okapi, a forest cousin of the giraffe with zebra-striped legs, lives wild only here.
- Its great river is the deepest in the world, and the only major river to cross the equator twice.