Democratic Republic of the Congo

Proper noun

the Democratic Republic of the Congo (abbreviation DRC or DR Congo)

1. A country in Central Africa, the larger of the two countries named Congo. Capital: Kinshasa.
   • The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s negotiator appeared to block the final deal presented by China, telling the plenary that he could not support the agreement in its current form because it did not create a new fund for biodiversity, separate to the existing UN fund, the global environment...2022 December 19, Patrick Greenfield, Phoebe Weston, “Cop15: historic deal struck to halt biodiversity loss by 2030”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN...
   • The evidence of supposed mass killings of white South Africans presented by Donald Trump in a tense White House meeting on Wednesday were in some cases images from the Democratic Republic of Congo, while footage shown during the meeting was falsely portrayed as depicting “burial sites”.2025 May 22, en, “Trump’s evidence of South Africa ‘white genocide’ contains images from Democratic Republic of Congo”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN...

   Synonyms:

   Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, Democratic Republic of the Congo-Kinshasa, Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Congo-Leopoldville, Republic of the Congo-Leopoldville, Republic of the Congo-Kinshasa, Zaire