Democratic Republic of the Congo

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɛməˈkɹætɪk ɹɪˈpʌblɪk əv ðə ˈkɒŋɡəʊ/

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the Democratic Republic of the Congo

2. A country in Central Africa, the larger of the two countries named Congo. Capital: Kinshasa.
   • 2022 December 19, Patrick Greenfield, Phoebe Weston, “Cop15: historic deal struck to halt biodiversity loss by 2030”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s negotiator appeared to block the final deal presented by China, telling the plenary that he could not support the agreement in its current form because it did not create a new fund for biodiversity, separate to the existing UN fund, the global environment facility (GEF).

   • 2025 May 22, “Trump’s evidence of South Africa ‘white genocide’ contains images from Democratic Republic of Congo”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     The evidence of supposed mass killings of white South Africans presented by Donald Trump in a tense White House meeting on Wednesday were in some cases images from the Democratic Republic of Congo, while footage shown during the meeting was falsely portrayed as depicting “burial sites”.

Though not official, the form Democratic Republic of Congo is attested and indeed slightly more common.^[1]

• Congo
• Congo-Kinshasa
• Congo-Zaire
• DRC (abbreviation)
• DR Congo (partial abbreviation)
• Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Republic of the Congo, Zaire (names of predecessors of the modern state)

• Subsahara

• Republic of the Congo, a country in Africa whose capital is Brazzaville

• Congo-Brazzaville
• Republic of Congo