Congo

The term Congo may refer to two countries that border the Congo River:

• the larger Democratic Republic of the Congo to the southeast (capital: Kinshasa), formerly known as Zaire
• the smaller Republic of the Congo to the northwest (capital: Brazzaville)

Congo or Kongo may also refer to:

Entertainment

Acting

• Kongō, one of the five schools of Noh acting

Film

• Kongo (1932 film), a film starring Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, and Conrad Nagel
• Congo (film), a 1995 film based on Michael Crichton's novel

Music

• "Congo" (song), a 1997 song by Genesis from Calling All Stations
• Kongos (band), a South African rock band
• The Congos, a reggae vocal group from Jamaica

Print

• Congo (novel), a 1980 novel by Michael Crichton
• Congo: The Epic History of a People, a 2010 non-fiction book by David van Reybrouck

Television

• Congo (BBC TV series), a 2001 BBC documentary series

Languages and ethnic groups

• Kongo people or Congolese, an ethnic group in the two Congo states and Angola
• Kongo language

People

• Kongō Masahiro (born 1948), former Japanese sumo wrestler
• John Kongos (born 1945), South African musician, leader of the band Johnny Kongos and the G-Men
• Kid Congo Powers (born 1960), American rock guitarist and singer
• Louis Congo (fl. 1725), emancipated slave appointed public executioner of the French colony Louisiana
• Cheick Kongo (born 1975), a.k.a. Cheick Guillaume Ouedraogo, French mixed martial arts fighter and kickboxer

Places

Africa

Basins

• Congo Basin

Historical states

• Kingdom of Kongo (1400–1914), covering parts of present-day Angola and the two Congo states
• Kongo dia Nlaza (until late in the 16th century), a former kingdom absorbed by the Kingdom of Kongo
• on the territory of the current Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) or Congo-Léopoldville (1960–1971)
  • Belgian Congo (1908–1960)
  • Congo Free State (1885–1908)
• on the territory of the current Republic of the Congo
  • People's Republic of the Congo (1970–1991)
  • French Congo (1880–1960)
• Portuguese Congo, now the Angolan exclave of Cabinda Province

Administrative regions

• Kongo Central, former Bas-Congo province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Other places

Cities and towns

• Congo, Alabama, United states
• Congo, New South Wales, Australia
• Congo, Paraíba, Brazil
• Congo, West Virginia, United States

Mountains

• Mount Kongō, a mountain in Japan
• Mount Kumgang, a mountain in North Korea known in Japanese as "Mount Kongō"

Rivers

• Congo River (Ecuador)
• Congo River (Panama)

Warships

• HMS Congo (1816), a steamship for the Royal Navy, United Kingdom
• Japanese corvette Kongō, launched 1877
• Japanese battleship Kongō, launched 1912 as a battlecruiser
  • Kongō-class battlecruiser
• JDS Kongō (DDG-173), a Japanese destroyer launched in 1991
  • Kongō-class destroyer

Other uses

• Congo (loa), a spirit in Haitian Vodou mythology
• Congo (chimpanzee)
• The Conference of NGOs or CONGO, a worldwide group of charity and aid organizations
• Vajra or Kongō, a Buddhist concept
• Congo (chess variant), a chess variant invented by Demian Freeling

See also

• Conga (disambiguation)
• Kongō (disambiguation)
• King Kong (disambiguation)
• Congo craton, one of the cratons making the African continental crust
• Congo River (disambiguation)
• Kakongo, former kingdom
• All pages beginning with "Congo"
• All pages with titles containing Congo
• All pages beginning with "Kongo"
• All pages with titles containing Kongo