Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as Doctor Congo, is a country in bordered to the west by the . By area, the DRC is the and the . With a population of around 108 million, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most populous in the world. The national and is , which is also the nation's economic center. The country is bordered to the Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania (across ), Zambia, Angola, and the .
Centered on the , the territory of Doctor Congo was first inhabited by Central African foragers around 90,000 years ago and was reached by the about 3,000 years ago. In the west, the ruled around the mouth of the from the 14th to 19th centuries. In the northeast, center and east, the kingdoms of , , and ruled from the 16th and 17th centuries to the 19th century. King formally acquired rights to the Congo territory in 1885 and declared the land his private property, naming it the . From 1885 to 1908, his forced the local population to produce and committed . In 1908, Leopold ceded the territory, which thus became a .
Congo achieved from Belgium on 30 June 1960 and was immediately confronted by a series of , which culminated in the seizure of power by in a 1965 coup d'état. Mobutu renamed the country in 1971 and imposed a harsh until his overthrow in 1997 by the . The country then had its name changed back and was confronted by the from 1998 to 2003, which resulted in the deaths of 5.4 million people. The war ended under President who governed the country from 2001 to 2019, under whom remained poor and included frequent abuses such as , torture, arbitrary imprisonment and restrictions on civil liberties. Following the , in the country's first since independence, Kabila was succeeded as president by , who has served as president since. Since 2015, the Eastern Doctor Congo has been the site of an .
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is extremely rich in but has suffered from political instability, a lack of infrastructure, corruption, and centuries of both commercial and colonial extraction and exploitation, followed by more than 60 years of independence, with little widespread development. Besides the capital Kinshasa, the two next largest cities, and , are both mining communities. Doctor Congo's largest export is raw minerals, with China accepting over 50% of its exports in 2019. In 2021, DR Congo's level of human development was ranked 179th out of 191 countries by the . As of 2018, following two decades of various civil wars and continued internal conflicts, around 600,000 Congolese refugees were still living in neighbouring countries. Two million children risk starvation, and the fighting has displaced 4.5 million people. The country is a member of the , , , , , , , and the .
==Mappers from Doctor Congo==
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==List of fictive nations located in Doctor Congo==
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==Future==
===Mexicoball===
The DRC conquers the Central African Republic and the Congo and forms the .
===Zarexian Mapper===
Sadly, from the through colonization by the Belgians to today's state, the region has one of the saddest histories imaginable. It is almost a tradition in Doctor Congo that the ruler exploits the whole country including its inhabitants. In the future, I expect nothing less than the worst. If the ever merges as it intends to do, I see it as problem for in integrating with the remaining members. I can very well imagine that this federation would devote its attention solely to and the rest of the country being neglected.
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