Congo

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Congo, Kongo and Kongō may refer to:

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African places and people

Congo River
Congo Basin (Congo region)
Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)
- People's Republic of the Congo (1970–1991)
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa)
- Congo Free State (1885–1908)
- Belgian Congo (1908–1960)
- Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) (1960–1964)
- Zaire, the name of the country under Mobutu regime (1965–1997)
Kongo people (Congolese), an ethnic group in the two Congo states and Angola
Kongo language (Kikongo), a Bantu language spoken in the Congo region
Kingdom of Kongo (1400–1914), covering parts of present-day Angola and the two Congo states
Kongo dia Nlaza (until late in the 16th century), a former kingdom absorbed by the Kingdom of Kongo
Portuguese Congo, now the Angolan exclave of Cabinda
M'banza-Kongo, the capital of Angola's northwestern Zaire province
Kongo Central, the former Bas-Congo province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
French Congo, the former name of the French Equatorial Africa (before 1910) that included Ubangi-Shari-Chad and Middle Congo
Congo as a broader geographic term may encompass Cabinda, North Angola, Gabon, Central Africa, Chad, Rwanda and Burundi (Rwanda and Burundi were administered by the Belgian Congo)

Congo African Grey Parrot
Congo (chimpanzee), name of a chimpanzee who learned to paint
Congo snake, a genus of aquatic salamander
Congo, one of many common names for Agkistrodon piscivorus, a venomous snake in the eastern United States
Conger, a genus of marine congrid eels

Congo (novel), a 1980 novel by Michael Crichton
Congo (film), a 1995 film based on Crichton's novel
Congo (BBC TV series), a 2001 BBC documentary film
Congo The Movie: The Lost City of Zinj, a 1995 Sega Saturn video game
Kongo, a 1932 film starring Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, and Conrad Nagel
Kongo, the main character in the Monkey Magic (TV series) anime series
"Congo" (song), a 1997 song by Genesis
Kongo Jungle, setting of the Donkey Kong video game series
Congo Bongo, a 1983 arcade and video game
The Congos, a Jamaican reggae duo
Congo theme in Kings Dominion amusement park, Virginia USA, loosely associated with Central Africa
Soukous (Congo), a genre of music from the Congo states

Congo (loa), a spirit in Haitian voodoo mythology
The Conference of NGOs (CONGO), a worldwide group of charity and aid organizations
Congo, townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
Congo Village, part of the city Diego Martin in Trinidad
The Congo or The Congo: A Study of the Negro Race, a poem by Vachel Lindsay
HMS Congo (1816), First steamship for the Royal Navy (United Kingdom)
Japanese corvette Kongō (1877)
Japanese battleship Kongō
JDS Kongo, a Kongō class destroyer
Yawara (Kongo), a martial arts weapon

Cheick Kongo (born 1975), mixed martial arts fighter
Kongō Masahiro (born 1948), former sumo wrestler
John Kongos (born 1945), South African musician, leader of the band "Johnny Kongos and the G-Men"
Kid Congo Powers (born 1960), guitarist
Louis Congo (circa 1725), emancipated slave appointed public executioner of Louisiana