23 March, 2017

the congo river

The Congo River (also known as the Zaire River; French(le) fleuve Congo/Zaïre; Portugese
rio Congo/Zaire; KongoNzâdi Kôngo) is a river in Africa. It is the second largest river in the world by discharge (after the Amazon), and the world's deepest river with measured depths in excess of 220 m (720 ft). The Congo-Chambeshi river has an overall length of 4,700 km (2,920 mi), which makes it the ninth-longest river (in terms of discharge, the Chambeshi is a tributary of the Lualaba River, Lualaba being the name of the Congo River upstream of the Boyoma Falls, extending for 1,800 km). Measured along the Lualaba, the Congo River has a total length of 4,370 km (2,715 mi). It crosses the equator twice.The Congo Basin has a total area of about 4 million km2, or 13% of the entire African landmass.

2 comments:

  1. This is the most awesome one ever. It's like as awesome as video games but not really. There is one thing that makes not look good, it looks like this person cough cough not me just copy this paragraph cough cough I really did copy the paragraph end.

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