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Democratic Republic of the Congo
Capital: Kinshasa
- The Congo River is described as the world's deepest river and the third-largest by water discharge.
- At about 2.35 million square kilometres, the country is the second-largest in Africa by land area.
- Most of the land is dense rainforest, centred on the Congo Basin.
- Lake Tanganyika forms part of the eastern border with Tanzania.