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| | Congo River |
 | | 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, running by Matadi and Boma, and into the sea at the small town of Muanda. |
 | | Although its existence was long known, and its great size guessed at, Henry Morton Stanley was the first European to navigate along the river's length and report on it. |
 | | Nearly the entire Congo is readily navigable, and railways bypass the three major falls, and much of the trade of central Africa passes along it, including copper, palm oil (as kernels), sugar, coffee, and cotton. |
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