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  Democratic Republic of the Congo - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
Downstream from this point the river is navigable and arcs west, then south to Kinshasa, forming much of the boundary between the Republic of the Congo and the DRC.
Largely rural, the population is concentrated in the eastern highlands and along rivers.
The principal seaports are Matadi and Boma, on the lower Congo River, and Banana, at the river’s mouth.
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 ipedia.com: Congo River Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The river also has the second-largest flow in the world, behind the Amazon, and the second-largest watershed of any river, again trailing the Amazon and slightly ahead of the Mississippi.
Kinshasa and Brazzaville are on opposite sides of the river at the Pool, then the river narrows and falls through a number of cataracts in deep canyons (collectively known as the Livingstone Falls), running by Matadi and Boma, and into the sea at the small town of Muanda.
Henry Morton Stanley was the first European to navigate along the river's length and report that the Lualaba was not a source of the Nile as had been suggested.
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 Influences in Africa - Part Four
Certainly the rivers and lakes are there and they cover vast areas compared to those of Western Europe, but they are not always full and their water is not always potable.
The Okavango Delta is in northern Botswana and is fed by the Okavango River.
The mighty River Nile is the source of water for millions of Africans through whose country it passes.
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 Congo, river, Africa
], great river of equatorial Africa, c.2,720 mi (4,380 km) long, formed by the waters of the Lualaba River and its tributary, the Luvua River, and flowing generally N and W through Congo (Kinshasa) to the Atlantic Ocean.
Journey to the Self: Margaret Meyers' Voyage From the Congo River to Washington.(author of "Swimming in the Congo")
(Bids and Pieces).(auction of Henry Morton Stanley map of the Congo River)
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