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The sky blue flag, adorned with a yellow star in the upper left corner and cut diagonally by a red stripe with a thin yellow frame.

Kinshasa

25 provinces (provinces, singular - province) and one neutral city* (ville neutre): Bas-Uélé, Équateur, Haut-Katanga, Haut-Lomami, Haut-Uélé, Ituri, Kasaï, Kasaï-Central, Kasaï Oriental, Kinshasa*, Kongo Central, Kwango, Kwilu, Lomami, Lualaba, Mai-Ndombe, Maniema, Mongala, Nord-Kivu, Nord-Ubangi, Sankuru, Sud-Kivu, Sud-Ubangi, Tanganyika, Tshopo, and Tshuapa.

65,751,512 (July 2007 est.)
Estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS, this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected.

French (official), Lingala (a lingua franca trade language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), Kikongo, Tshiluba

0° 00' N, 25° 00' E

2,345,410 sq. km

2,267,600 sq. km

77,810 sq. km

10,730 km

Angola 2,511 km (of which 225 km is the boundary of Angola's discontiguous Cabinda Province), Burundi 233 km, Central African Republic 1,577 km, Republic of the Congo 2,410 km, Rwanda 217 km, Sudan 628 km, Tanzania 459 km, Uganda 765 km, Zambia 1,930 km

37 km

Atlantic Ocean 0 m - Pic Marguerite on Mont Ngaliema (Mount Stanley) 5,110 m

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Congolese franc (CDF)

DROC

Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Republique Democratique du Congo

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Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Congo/Leopoldvill

30 June 1960 (from Belgium)

February 18, 2006, the Democratic Republic of Congo adopted a new constitution. 24 June 1967, amended August 1974, revised 15 February 1978, amended April 1990, transitional constitution promulgated in April 1994, in November 1998, a draft constitution was approved by former President Laurent KABILA but it was not ratified by a national referendum, one outcome of the ongoing inter-Congolese dialogue is to be a new constitution

dictatorship, presumably undergoing a transition to representative government

Independence Day, 30 June (1960)