Fun fact 5 about Congo
river
The current course of the Congo River formed between 1.5 and 2 million years ago during the Pleistocene.
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river
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 “Natural history” section
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Photo: MONUSCO/Myriam Asmani · CC BY-SA 2.0