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Congo, Democratic Republic of
     
Congo, Democratic Republic of
a very large country in central Africa, which was called Zaïre between 1971 and 1997, and before that was called the Belgian Congo. Population: 53,625,000 (2001). Capital: Kinshasa.
—Congolese noun, adjective
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