Congo River
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| Congo River | |
| Le fleuve Zaïre | |
| The nint langest river in the warld | |
 Aerial view o the Congo River near Kisangani
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| Kintras | Angolae, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo-Kinshasa, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Rwanda, Tanzanie, Zambie |
|---|---|
| Mooth | Atlantic Ocean |
| Lenth | 4,700 km (2,920 mi) [1] |
| Basin | 4,014,500 km2 (1,550,007 sq mi) [1] |
| Discharge | |
| - average | 41,000 m3/s (1,447,901 cu ft/s) [1] |
| - max | 75,000 m3/s (2,648,600 cu ft/s) [1] |
| - min | 23,000 m3/s (812,237 cu ft/s) [1] |
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The Congo River (an aa kent as the Zaire River; French: (le) fleuve Congo / Zaïre; Portuguese: rio Congo / Zaire) is a river in Africae and the warld's deepest river wi measurt depths in excess o 220 m (720 ft).[2] It is the seicont lairgest river in the warld bi discharge (efter the Amazon). The Congo-Chambeshi river haes an owerall lenth o 4,700 km (2,920 mi), which maks it the nint langest river (in terms o discharge, the Chambeshi is a tributary o the Lualaba River, Lualaba bein the name o the Congo River upstream o the Boyoma Faws, extendin for 1,800 km). Measurt alang the Lualaba, the Congo River haes a tot lenth o 4,370 km (2,715 mi), The Congo Basin haes a tot aurie o aboot 4 million km2, or 13% o the entire African laundmass.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ a b c d e Bossche, J.P. vanden; G. M. Bernacsek (1990). Source Book for the Inland Fishery Resources of Africa, Volume 1. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. pp. 338–339. ISBN 978-92-5-102983-1.
- ↑ Oberg, Kevin (Julie 2008). "Discharge and Other Hydraulic Measurements for Characterizing the Hydraulics of Lower Congo River, July 2008" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey.