Fun fact 2 about Congo
river
The Congo River transports annually 86 million tonnes of suspended sediment to the Atlantic Ocean.
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Congo
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Length
4,700 km
Mouth
Atlantic Ocean
Countries
DR Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Cameroon, Zambia, Burundi, Rwanda
The Congo River, 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–Brahmaputra rivers.
From the “Basin and course” section
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Photo: MONUSCO/Myriam Asmani · CC BY-SA 2.0