copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Congo River is a territory of Republic of the Congo (Congo River, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2020-07-19): The Republic of the Congo is one of the most urbanized countries in Africa, with nearly 70% of Congolese living in urban areas. The population is concentrated in the southwest of the country, mainly in the capital Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire, and along the railway line that connects the two. The tropical jungles in the north of the country are sparsely populated. Most Congolese are Bantu, and most belong to one of four main ethnic groups, the Kongo, Teke, Mbochi, and Sangha, which consist of over 70 subgroups. [...] local long form: Republique du Congo local short form: Congo former: French Congo, Middle Congo, People's Republic of the Congo, Congo/Brazzaville etymology: named for the Congo River, which makes up much of the country's eastern border; the river name derives from Kongo, a Bantu kingdom that occupied its mouth at the time of Portuguese discovery in the late 15th century and whose name stems from its people the Bakongo, meaning "hunters" [...] Disputes - international the location of the boundary in the broad Congo River with the Democratic Republic of the Congo is undefined except in the Pool Malebo/Stanley Pool area
Claim: Congo River is a territory of Republic of the Congo (Congo River, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2017-07-15): Travelling inland from its mouth, the River Congo holds many stories of slavery, colonialism and independence. Democratic Republic of Congo – The River Congo has always inspired reverence. [...] Dispatched on a second voyage by the Portuguese king two years later, Cao forged friendly relations with the manikongo, the ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo, an independent state founded in the late-14th century. The kingdom included a lengthy section of the river and stretched hundreds of miles inland to include parts of today’s Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo), Angola, Republic of Congo and Gabon.
Claim: Congo River is a territory of Republic of the Congo (Congo River, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-09-21): Republic of the Congo, country situated astride the Equator in west-central Africa. Officially known as the Republic of the Congo, the country is often called Congo (Brazzaville), with its capital added parenthetically, to distinguish it from neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is often referred to by its acronym, the DRC, or called Congo (Kinshasa). [...] Congo is bounded to the northwest by Cameroon, to the north by the Central African Republic, to the east and south by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the southwest by the Angolan exclave of Cabinda, and to the west by Gabon. South of its border with Gabon, the country also has a 100-mile- (160-km-) long coastline along the Atlantic Ocean. [...] The country’s drainage system is dominated by the Congo River. The Congo’s main northern tributary, the Ubangi River, flows southward from the Central African Republic and forms the country’s eastern border as far as the town of Liranga, where it joins the Congo proper. The main river continues southward to Malebo Pool, a shallow 300-square-mile (775-square-km) lake, and then on to Livingstone (Zongo) Falls before turning southwest through Congo (Kinshasa) to the Atlantic Ocean. The major right-bank tributaries of the Congo, all within the Congo Republic, include the Sangha, Likouala, Alima, Nkéni, Léfini, Djoué, and Foulakari rivers.
Claim: Congo River is a territory of Republic of the Congo (Congo River, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-08-01): The Republic of the Congo is one of the most urbanized countries in Africa, with nearly 70% of Congolese living in urban areas. The population is concentrated in the southwest of the country, mainly in the capital Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire, and along the railway line that connects the two. The tropical jungles in the north of the country are sparsely populated. Most Congolese are Bantu, and most belong to one of four main ethnic groups, the Kongo, Teke, Mbochi, and Sangha, which consist of over 70 subgroups. [...] local long form: Republique du Congo local short form: Congo former: French Congo, Middle Congo, People's Republic of the Congo, Congo/Brazzaville etymology: named for the Congo River, which makes up much of the country's eastern border; the river name derives from Kongo, a Bantu kingdom that occupied its mouth at the time of Portuguese discovery in the late 15th century and whose name stems from its people the Bakongo, meaning "hunters"
Claim: Congo River is a territory of Republic of the Congo (Congo River, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2005-06-09): The Congo River has the second greatest discharge of any river in the world after the Amazon. It drains 3.7 million km2 of the African continent. Through its middle course from Boyoma Falls near Kisangani to Malebo Pool at Kinshasa/Brazzaville, the river drops only 115 m over 1740 km as it crosses the cuvette centrale congolaise, a vast, shallow depression along the equator in the heart of Africa (Hughes & Hughes 1992). Throughout the cuvette centrale, great swamps extend behind the river's levees and along the banks of the numerous tributaries that drain it (Fig. 5.1). These swamps and other wetlands are estimated to cover at least 69 000 km2 in the Congo and 120 000 km2 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (D. R. Congo, formerly Zaire; Hughes & Hughes 1992), for a total of c. 190 000 km. To put these swamps in perspective, they are larger than the states of Louisiana and Mississippi put together or over four times the size of Switzerland. This makes them the fourth- to fifth-largest area of wetlands in the world.
Claim: Congo River is a territory of Republic of the Congo (Congo River, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-06): Centered on the Congo Basin, the territory of the Congo was first inhabited by Central African foragers around 90,000 years ago and was reached by the Bantu expansion about 3,000 years ago.[7] In the west, the Kingdom of Kongo ruled around the mouth of the Congo River from the 14th to 19th centuries. In the northeast, center, and east, the empires of Luba and Lunda and kingdoms of Azande and Kuba ruled from the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries to the 19th century. King Leopold II of Belgium formally acquired rights to the Congo territory from the colonial nations of Europe in 1885 and declared the land his private property, naming it the Congo Free State. From 1885 to 1908, his colonial military forced the local population to produce rubber and committed widespread atrocities. In 1908, Leopold ceded the territory, which thus became a Belgian colony. [...] The Democratic Republic of the Congo is named after the Congo River, which flows through the country. The Congo River is the world's deepest river and the world's third-largest river by discharge. The Comité d'études du haut Congo ("Committee for the Study of the Upper Congo"), established by King Leopold II of Belgium in 1876, and the International Association of the Congo, established by him in 1879, were also named after the river.[18]
Claim: Congo River is a territory of Republic of the Congo (Congo River, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-09-28): The Congo River,[a] formerly also known as the Zaire River, is the second-longest river in Africa, shorter only than the Nile, as well as the third-largest river in the world by discharge volume, following the Amazon and Ganges rivers. It is the world's deepest recorded river, with measured depths of around 220 m (720 ft).[9] The Congo–Lualaba–Luvua–Luapula–Chambeshi River system has an overall length of 4,700 km (2,900 mi), which makes it the world's ninth-longest river. The Chambeshi is a tributary of the Lualaba River, and Lualaba is the name of the Congo River upstream of Boyoma Falls, extending for 1,800 km (1,100 mi). Measured along with the Lualaba, the main tributary, the Congo River has a total length of 4,370 km (2,720 mi). It is the only major river to cross the Equator twice.[10] The Congo Basin has a total area of about 4,000,000 km2 (1,500,000 sq mi), or 13% of the entire African landmass. [...] - Bibliography on Water Resources and International Law—Peace Palace Library - Map of the Congo River basin at Water Resources eAtlas - The Congo Project, American Museum of Natural History - Rivers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Rivers of the Republic of the Congo - Rivers of Angola - Congo River - Congo drainage basin - Angola–Democratic Republic of the Congo border - Border rivers - Congolian forests - Democratic Republic of the Congo–Republic of the Congo border - International rivers of Africa - Physiographic sections
Claim: Congo River is a territory of Republic of the Congo (Congo River, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2020-01-20): The larger of the two countries, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is located to the southeast, while the smaller nation, the Republic of the Congo, is situated to the northwest. While they share a name, each country has its own interesting history and statistics. Read on to learn more about these closely related but distinctly different nations. The Democratic Republic of the Congo The capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, also known as "Congo-Kinshasa," is Kinshasa, which is also the country's largest city. Prior to its present name, the Democratic Republic of Congo was formerly known as Zaire, and before that, it was the Belgian Congo. The Democratic Republic of Congo borders the Central African Republic and South Sudan to the north; Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi in the east; Zambia and Angola to the south; the Republic of the Congo, the Angolan exclave of Cabinda, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The country has access to the ocean through a 25-mile stretch of Atlantic coastline at Muanda and the roughly five-and-a-half-mile-wide mouth of the Congo River, which opens into the Gulf of Guinea.
Claim: Congo River is a territory of Republic of the Congo (Congo River, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-02-28): The Congo River is one of the world's longest rivers and Africa's second-longest, flowing through six countries in West-Central Africa. The river snakes its way along the equator, crossing it on two occasions to finally drain into the Atlantic Ocean after traversing 2,900 miles! It is also the world's second-largest river by discharge volume after the Amazon River of South America. However, that is not all. This major African River is also the world's deepest river, with a maximum depth of 720 feet (220m). Over the years, many surveys have been conducted to understand and unravel the secrets of the Congo's dark depths. So, in this article, let us closely examine The World's Deepest River, the Congo River! Geography Of The Congo River The Congo River flows through six countries of west-Central Africa - Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. It is divided into three sections along its course - the Upper Congo, Middle Congo, and Lower Congo. The Congo traces its origin in Eastern Africa, with its headwaters located in the highlands of the East African Rift. The Lualaba River and the Chambeshi River are the major tributaries of the Congo, with the former being fed by lakes Mweru and Tanganyika and the latter rising in Zambia. The river drains into the Atlantic in the town of Moanda in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Claim: Congo River is a territory of Republic of the Congo (Congo River, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-05): Congo, officially the Republic of the Congo or Congo Republic,[a] also known as Congo-Brazzaville is a country located on the western coast of Central Africa to the west of the Congo River. It is bordered to the west by Gabon, to the northwest by Cameroon, to the northeast by the Central African Republic, to the southeast by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south by the Angolan exclave of Cabinda, and to the southwest by the Atlantic Ocean. The region was dominated by Bantu-speaking tribes at least 3,000 years ago, who built trade links leading into the Congo River basin. From the 13th century the present day territory was dominated by a confederation led by Vungu which included Kakongo and Ngoyo. Loango emerged in the 16th century. Congo was formerly part of the French colony of Equatorial Africa.[13] The Republic of the Congo was established on 28 November 1958 and gained independence from France in 1960. It was a Marxist–Leninist state from 1969 to 1992, under the name People's Republic of the Congo (PRC). The country has had multi-party elections since 1992, but a democratically elected government was ousted in the 1997 Republic of the Congo Civil War. President Denis Sassou Nguesso, who first came to power in 1979, ruled until 1992 and then again since after his reinstatement.
Claim: Congo River is a territory of Republic of the Congo (Congo River, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2015-01-10): "The Congo River is the spine of our country," says Isidore Ndaywel è Nziem, a professor of history at the University of Kinshasa. "Without a spine, a man cannot stand up." Seen this way, the river pathway—which, after traveling northward from Boyoma Falls (formerly Stanley Falls, for the great explorer Henry Morton Stanley), takes a southwestward plunge toward the ocean—traces the figure of a dogged but severely hobbled peasant. That it has no real governing authority makes the Congo River the nation’s great equalizer. It also greatly diminishes the river’s value as a resource. Given the 1.5 million-square-mile river basin’s immense hydroelectric and agricultural potential, all of Africa could be beholden to it, and thus to its mother country. Instead the river remains wild, and the DRC staggers under the weight of overpopulation, poverty, lawlessness, and corruption.
Claim: Congo River is a territory of Republic of the Congo (Congo River, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-04-30): The Congo River (also known as Zaire River) is the largest river in Africa. Its overall length of 4,700 km (2,922 miles) makes it the second longest in Africa (after the Nile). The river and its tributaries flow through the second largest rain forest area in the world,[1] second only to the Amazon Rainforest in South America. The river also has the second-largest flow in the world, behind the Amazon, and the second-largest watershed of any river, again trailing the Amazon. Its watershed is a little larger than that of the Mississippi River. Because large parts of the river basin sit north and south of the equator, its flow is steady, as there is always at least one river having a rainy season.[2] The Congo gets its name from the old Kingdom of Kongo which was at the mouth of the river. The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo, both countries sitting along the river's banks, are named after it. From 1971 to 1997, the Democratic Republic of the Congo was called Zaire and its government called the river the Zaire River. [...] Literature [change | change source]The Congo River was the location the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
Claim: Congo River is a territory of Republic of the Congo (Congo River, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2020-08-05): The Congo River is a long, arcing river with a basin that spans nine countries in West-Central Africa. This extensive body of water provides food, water, medicine and transport to about 75 million people in the surrounding basin, according to Yale University's Global Forest Atlas. [...] The Congo River system runs through the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, western Zambia, northern Angola, and parts of Cameroon and Tanzania, according to National Geographic. [...] The land in the Congo Basin is a web of smaller rivers, swamps and forests. Its entire area covers almost all of the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, western Zambia, northern Angola, and parts of Cameroon, Gabon and Tanzania. The basin is bordered by the Sahara Desert to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the south and west, and the East African lakes region to the east.
Claim: Congo River is a territory of Republic of the Congo (Congo River, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-09): Congo River, or Zaire River, River, west-central Africa. Rising in Zambia as the Chambeshi and flowing 2,900 mi (4,700 km) through the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Atlantic Ocean, it is the second longest river in Africa. It flows through three contrasting regions: the upper Congo, characterized by lakes, waterfalls, and rapids; the middle Congo, with seven cataracts known as Boyoma (Stanley) Falls; and the lower Congo, which divides into two branches forming a vast lake area called the Malebo (Stanley) Pool. Congo River summary verifiedCite [...] Kinshasa, largest city and capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It lies about 320 miles (515 km) from the Atlantic Ocean on the south bank of the Congo River. One of the largest cities of sub-Saharan Africa, it is a special political unit equivalent to a Congolese region, with its own river Summary
Claim: Congo River is a territory of Republic of the Congo (Congo River, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-06-12): Geography of the Republic of the Congo 1°00′S 15°00′E / 1.000°S 15.000°E The Republic of the Congo is located in the western part of central Africa, on the Equator. Congo has several important ports. The Republic of the Congo covers an area of 342,000 km², of which 341,500 km² is land while 500 km² is water. Congo claims 200 nautical miles (370 km) of territorial sea. The capital of the Republic of the Congo is Brazzaville, located on the Congo River immediately across from Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With a metropolitan population of approximately 1.5 million, Brazzaville is by far the largest city in the Republic, having almost twice the population of Pointe-Noire (663,400 as of the 2005 census), the country's second largest city. About 70% of the population lives in Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire, or along the railroad between them. [...] Ecology [edit]The terrain is a variation of coastal plains, mountainous regions, plateaus and fertile valleys. About 70 percent of the country's area is covered by rain forest. The highest point, at 1,020 m, is Mont Nabeba in the Mayumbe mountains. The major rivers are the Congo River at the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Kouilou-Niari River.
Claim: Congo River is a territory of Republic of the Congo (Congo River, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (1999-07-26): Congo River, river in west-central Africa. With a length of 2,900 miles (4,700 km), it is the continent’s second longest river, after the Nile. It rises in the highlands of northeastern Zambia between Lakes Tanganyika and Nyasa (Malawi) as the Chambeshi River at an elevation of 5,760 feet (1,760 metres) above sea level and at a distance of about 430 miles (700 km) from the Indian Ocean. Its course then takes the form of a giant counterclockwise arc, flowing to the northwest, west, and southwest before draining into the Atlantic Ocean at Banana (Banane) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its drainage basin, covering an area of 1,335,000 square miles (3,457,000 square km), takes in almost the entire territory of that country, as well as most of the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, eastern Zambia, and northern Angola and parts of Cameroon and Tanzania.
Claim: Congo River is a territory of Republic of the Congo (Congo River, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2019-01-10): Democratic Republic of Congo profile - Timeline - Published [...] 1971 - Joseph Mobutu renames the country Zaire and himself Mobutu Sese Seko; Katanga becomes Shaba and the river Congo becomes the river Zaire. [...] Rule of the Kabilas 1997 May - Tutsi and other anti-Mobutu rebels, aided principally by Rwanda, capture the capital, Kinshasa; Zaire is renamed the Democratic Republic of Congo; Laurent-Desire Kabila installed as president.
Claim: Congo River is a territory of Republic of the Congo (Congo River, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2016-07-05): Global Witness’ investigation into a recent gold rush along the Ulindi River in Shabunda territory in eastern Congo reveals the extent of the problems that beset the region’s artisanal gold sector. The Ulindi boom generated more than a tonne of gold per year, worth around $38 million,[ii] whose beneficiaries included armed groups and a predatory Chinese-owned company, Kun Hou Mining, rather than the local population. [...] [v] IPIS, 2014, "Analysis of the Interactive Map of Artisanal Mining Areas in Eastern DRC: May 2014 update", http://ipisresearch.be/publication/analysis-interactive-map-artisanal-mining-areas-eastern-drc-may-2014-update/, p.11 [vi] Global Witness has seen official documents from the provincial Ministry of Mines in (former) Orientale Province, dated February 2015, which detail illegal activities and environmental damaged by semi-industrial dredges along the River Ituri and River Aruwimi, Ituri; see also research conducted by PAX, 2015, "Exploiter (dans) le désordre Cartographie sécuritaire du secteur aurifère à Mambasa occidental" http://www.paxchristi.net/news-media/resources-pax-christi-member-organisations ; and Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW), 2014, "Congo’s Golden Web: The people, companies and countries that profit from the illegal trade in Congolese gold" http://www.sarwatch.org/sites/sarwatch.org/files/Publications_docs/congogold3web.pdf p.38 [vii] See for example: Stop-Pillage, 2013, TRIAL, 2013, "TRIAL files a criminal denunciation to the Swiss Federal Prosecutor against a Swiss refinery company suspected of laundering looted gold from the Democratic Republic of the Congo"
Claim: Congo River is a territory of Republic of the Congo (Congo River, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2012-11-16): Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) - Exercise a high degree of caution [...] Exercise extreme caution if you’re travelling in the border area of northern Congo along the Ubangi River, due to ongoing insecurity in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Claim: Congo River is a territory of Republic of the Congo (Congo River, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2009-01-20): Geographically the largest country in sub-Saharan Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has a population of 70 million people, vast natural resources, and boundaries that encompass much of the Congo River Basin rainforest, which significantly influences the world’s natural environment. The DRC is also one of the poorest countries in the world, possessing weak governmental institutions and an underdeveloped infrastructure. INL programs seek to improve and expand the DRC’s security and justice sectors. The federal government, based in Kinshasa, does not exert control over all of its territory, and is particularly weak in the eastern provinces. During recent decades, the DRC has endured recurring cross-border conflict and internal rebellion. In November 2013, the Congolese army, with logistical support from UN forces, defeated the M23 rebels, although other, smaller militant and rebel groups remain a threat.