Summary
- Politics
- Name: Congo, Democratic Republic
- Capital: Kinshasa
- 2 Letter Code: CD
- 3 Letter Code: COD
- Land
- Contenent: Africa
- Region: Middle Africa
- Total Land: 2,344,858 (905,355)
- Land: 2,267,048 (875,312)
- Water: 77,810 (30,040)
- People
- Population: 62,660,551
- Birth Rate: 43.69 per 1,000
- Death Rate: 13.27 per 1,000
- Infant Mortality: 94.69 per 1,000
- Literacy: 75.00%
- Economy
- Agriculture: 55%%
- Industry: 11%%
- Service: 34%%
Map
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a country in Central Africa. It was formerly known as Zaire.
History
Coming soon.
Modern Times
Coming soon.
Genetics
This section is under development.
mtDNA
Sources and Resources
Background
Journal Articles
- de Filippo, Cesare; Barbieri, Chiara; Whitten, Mark; Mpoloka, Sununguko Wata W.; Gunnarsdottir, Ellen Drofn D.; Bostoen, Koen; Nyambe, Terry; Beyer, Klaus; Schreiber, Henning; de Knijff, Peter; Luiselli, Donata; Stoneking, Mark & Pakendorf, Brigitte (2011). Y-chromosomal variation in sub-Saharan Africa: insights into the history of Niger-Congo groups. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 28(3), 1255-1269.
- van Dorp, L., Lowes, S., Weigel, J.L., Ansari-Pour, N., López, S., Mendoza-Revilla, J., Robinson, J.A., Henrich, J., Thomas, M.G., Nunn, N. and Hellenthal, G. (2018). Genetic legacy of state centralization in the Kuba Kingdom of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201811211, -.