Congo, Kongo, or Kongō may refer to:

In Africa:

• Congo River, an African river
• Republic of the Congo, an African country to the west of the Congo River
  • French Congo (1880-1910)
• Democratic Republic of the Congo, an African country to the east of the Congo River
  • Congo Free State (1885-1908)
  • Belgian Congo (1908-1960)
  • Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) (1960-1964)
  • Zaire (1971 – 1997)
• Kingdom of Kongo (1400-1914), which comprised parts of present-day Angola, Cabinda, the Republic of the Congo, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Kongo dia Nlaza, small eastern kingdom absorbed into the Kingdom of Kongo in the 16th century
• Kongo people, an ethnic group in both Congos and Angola, sometimes referred to as Congolese
• Kongo language, sometimes called Kikongo, the Bantu language spoken by the Kongo people, and the base for the Kituba language
• Portuguese Congo, now the Angolan exclave of Cabinda
• Congo craton, an ancient and stable piece of continental crust
• M'banza-Kongo, the capital of Angola's northwestern Zaire Province
• Kongo Central, the former Bas-Congo province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Congolian forests, the Congo basin forests. The Republic of the Congo (République du Congo Kongo: Repubilika ya Kongo; Lingala: Republiki ya Kongó) also known as Congo-Brazzaville The Democratic Republic of the Congo (République démocratique du Congo often referred to as DR Congo, DRC or RDC, and formerly known or referred to The Congo River (for a time known as the Zaire River) is the largest River in Western Central Africa. The Republic of the Congo (République du Congo Kongo: Repubilika ya Kongo; Lingala: Republiki ya Kongó) also known as Congo-Brazzaville French Congo was the original French Colony established in the present-day area of the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and the Central African The Democratic Republic of the Congo (République démocratique du Congo often referred to as DR Congo, DRC or RDC, and formerly known or referred to The Congo Free State was a Corporate state privately controlled by Leopold II King of the Belgians through a dummy non-governmental organization the The Belgian Congo ( Dutch: Belgisch Kongo French: Congo Belge German: Belgisch Kongo was the formal title of present-day Democratic Republic The Republic of the Congo (République du Congo was an independent republic established following the independence granted to the former colony of the Belgian Congo in The Republic of Zaire (pronunciation; République du Zaïre was the name of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo between October 27, 1971 The Kingdom of Kongo (1400 – 1914 ( Kongo: Kongo dya Ntotila or Wene wa Kongo) was an African kingdom located in west central Africa in what Kongo dia Nlaza was a little known kingdom that existed to the east of the Kingdom of Kongo and was absorbed into Kongo in the late sixteenth century The Bakongo or the Kongo people (meaning "hunter" also sometimes referred to as Congolese, live along the Atlantic coast of Africa Kikongo or Kongo is the Bantu language spoken by the Bakongo and Bandundu people living in the tropical forests of the Democratic Republic The Congo craton, covered by the Palaeozoic -to-recent Congo basin, is an ancient Precambrian Craton that with four others (the Kaapvaal M'banza-Kongo, formerly known as São Salvador (in Portuguese) is the capital of Angola 's northwestern Zaire Province. Kongo Central (formerly Congo Centrale, Bas-Zaïre, then Bas-Congo) is a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Congolian forests are a broad belt of lowland tropical moist broadleaf forest which extends across the basin of the Congo River and its tributaries in Central

In Japan:

• Mount Kongō, a mountain in Osaka prefecture
• Japanese corvette Kongō (1877)
• Kongō class battlecruiser
  • Japanese battleship Kongō (1913-1945)
• Kongō class destroyer

In entertainment:

• Congo (novel), a 1980 novel by Michael Crichton
  • Congo (film), a 1995 film based on Crichton's novel
  • Congo The Movie: The Lost City of Zinj, a 1995 Sega Saturn video game
• Kongo, a 1932 film starring Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, and Conrad Nagel
• Kongo, the main character in the Monkey Magic anime series

In music:

• The Congos, a Jamaican reggae duo
• "Congo" (song), a 1997 song by Genesis
• Congo or Soukous, a genre of music from the Congos

Other uses:

• Congo (loa), a spirit in Haitian voodoo mythology
• Common name for Agkistrodon piscivorus, a venomous snake
• Congo Peafowl, a bird species
• CONGO or the Conference of NGOs, a worldwide group of charity and aid organizations
• Kongo or yawara, a martial arts weapon

People with the family name:

• Cheick Kongo (born 1975), mixed martial arts fighter
• Kongō Masahiro (born 1948), former 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 singer and guitarist

See also

• Conga (disambiguation)
• The King of the Kongo, 1929 film serial by Mascot Pictures
• King of the Congo, 1952 film serial by Columbia Pictures

is a 1125 meter high mountain in the Senshū region of the Osaka Prefecture, Kansai, Japan. History Kongō was designed by Edward James Reed and built at the Arles shipyard at Hull, United Kingdom. The ships: launched on 18 May 1912, sunk 21 November 1944 by a US submarine with heavy loss of life when a magazine detonated Design and build In 1908 the commissioning of the battlecruiser armed with eight guns into the Royal Navy rendered all of the Imperial Japanese Navy 's warships Design The Kongō class employs the highly advanced Aegis fire control system and is armed with the RIM-66 SM-2MR Block II Surface-to-air Congo is a 1980 Novel by American writer Michael Crichton. The novel centers on an expedition searching for Diamonds in the dense For other films with similar names see Congo. Congo is a 1995 movie, based on Michael Crichton 's 1980 Congo the Movie The Lost City of Zinj is a first-person shooter developed by Jumpin Jack and published by Sega for the Sega Saturn Lupe Vélez ( July 18, 1908 &ndash December 13, 1944) was a Mexican actress This article is about the 1990s animated television series for the live-action TV series sometimes known as Monkey Magic!, please see Monkey (TV series The Congos are a Reggae vocal group from Jamaica active on and off from the mid-1970s until the present day " Congo " was the debut single from the Genesis album Calling All Stations. Soukous (also known as Lingala or Congo, and previously as African rumba) is a Musical genre that originated in the two neighbouring countries In the Voodoo faith Congo is a handsome but apathetic Loa. In the Congo Savanne aspect he is a fierce Petro loa. Common names cottonmouth water moccasin black moccasin black snake more. The Congo Peafowl, Afropavo congensis, is a species of Peafowl. The Conference of NGOs, (also CONGO and "The Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations" "is an independent The yawara (also called pasak or dulodulo in Filipino martial arts) is a Japanese Weapon used in various Martial arts It takes Cheick "Unstoppable" Kongo (born May 17, 1975 in Paris, France) is a professional French heavyweight Kongō Masahiro (born 18 November 1948 as Masahiro Yoshizawa) is a former Sumo wrestler from Hokkaidō, Japan. John Kongos (born 6 August 1945, Johannesburg, South Africa) is a Singer-songwriter. Kid Congo Powers is the Stage name of Brian Tristan (born 1960 Los Angeles California) an American Rock guitarist and singer best known as For the 1952 Columbia serial see King of the Congo, and for other uses please see Congo. For the 1929 Mascot serial see The King of the Kongo, and for other uses please see Congo.

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