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Foreign Trade and Business in the DR Congo, Kinshasa, Mbuji-Mayi, Lubumbashi, Kisangani

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a Central African Country

  1. Kinshasa is the political and administrative capital of the DR Congo and the largest Congolese city (9.3 million people)
    1. Kinshasa has the largest African River port
  2. Other Congolese cities are Lubumbashi, Mbuji-Mayi, Kananga, Kisangani, Bukavu and Goma
  3. The nine Congolese socio-economic cities are Baraka, Bandundu, Beni, Boma, Butembo, Likasi, Mwene-Ditu, Uvira and Zongo.
  4. Main Congolese economic activities:
    1. Agriculture: coffee, wood (afromosia, ébène, wengé) and rubber
    2. Mining: coltan (70% of the world's coltan), diamonds, cobalt, gold (10% of the known world gold reserves), iron ore, bauxite, nickel
    3. Oil exploitation
  5. The Democratic Republic of the Congo has one of the largest equatorial forest areas in the world
  6. Political instability, lack of infrastructure
  7. Corruption problems
  8. Secession risks in Katanga
  9. The Democratic Republic of the Congo share borders with Angola(Cabinda), Burundi (233 kilometres), Uganda (877 kilometres), the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic (Oubangui River in Bangui, Zongo, Bimbo, Mbaiki South-Ubangi), Rwanda (Gisenyi - Goma), South Sudan, Tanzania and Zambia
  10. The Congo River delimits the border between the DR Congo and the Republic of the Congo
    1. Congo River (4,700 kilometres) is the second river in the world by average flow

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Foreign Trade and Business in the DR Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo

  1. Masters: Business in Africa, Transport in Africa, Foreign Trade, International Business
  2. Doctorates: African Business, World Trade, Global Logistics

Congolese Students: Masters, Business

More information: Business in the DR Congo, at EENI Website.

Foreign Trade and Business in the DR Congo

Others names of the DR Congo:

  1. Congo, RDC, DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa
  2. Repubilika ya Kongo Demokratiki in Kikongo
  3. Repubilíka ya Kongó Demokratíki in Lingala
  4. Ditunga dia Kongu wa Mungalaata in Luba-Katanga
  5. Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo in Swahili
  6. 1908 - 1966: Congo-Leopoldville
  7. 1971 - 1997: Zaire

Amini Kajunju (Congolese businesswoman)

Amini Kajunju (Congolese Businesswoman)

  1. Congolese population: 78 million inhabitants
    1. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the fourth most populous African Country (behind Nigeria, Ethiopia and Egypt)
    2. The RD Congo is the most populous French-speaking country
    3. 2025: 99 million Congolese
    4. Congolese Population density: 36 inhabitants/km²
  2. Area of the DR Congo: 2,345,410 km²
    1. The RD Congo is the second largest African Country (after Algeria)

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  1. The Democratic Republic of the Congo obtained the Independence from Belgium in 1960
  2. Calling code of the DR Congo: 243
  3. Country code top-level domain of the DR Congo: .cd
  4. Currency of the DR Congo: Congolese Franc (CDF)

Transport and Logistics in the DR Congo

Transport in the DR Congo

Provinces of the DR Congo (department, capital, area in km², population in thousands of people):

Foreign Trade and Business in the DR Congo

  1. Bas-Uele/Buta/148,331/1,138
  2. Équateur/Mbandaka/103,902/1,528
  3. Upper Katanga/Lubumbashi/132,425/4,617
  4. Haut-Lomami/Kamina/108,204/,957
  5. Haut-Uele/Isiro/89,683/1,864
  6. Ituri/Bunia/65,658/3,650
  7. Kasaï/Luebo/95,631/2,801
  8. Kasaï-Central/Kananga/60,958/3,317
  9. Eastern Kasai/Mbuji-Mayi/9,481/3,145
  10. Kinshasa/Kinshasa/9,965/11,575
  11. Kongo-Central/Matadi/53,920/5,575
  12. Kwango/Kenge/89,974/2,152
  13. Kwilu/Kikwit/78,219/5,490
  14. Lomami/Kabinda/56 426/2 443
  15. Lualaba/Kolwezi/121,308/2,570
  16. Mai-Ndombe/Inongo/127,465/1,852
  17. Maniema/Kindu/132,520/2,333
  18. Mongala/Lisala/58,141/1,740
  19. North Kivu/Goma/59,483/6,655
  20. North-Ubangi/Gbadolite/56,644/1,269
  21. Sankuru/Lusambo/104,331/2,110
  22. South Kivu/Bukavu/65,070/5,772
  23. South-Ubangi/Gemena/51,648/2,458
  24. Tanganyika/Kalemie/134,940/3,062
  25. Tshopo/Kisangani/199,567/2,352
  26. Tshuapa/Boende/132,957/1,600

Trade Organisations (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

  1. Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS)
  2. Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
  3. U.S.-COMESA Agreement
  4. Southern African Development Community (SADC)
  5. COMESA-EAC-SADC Agreement
  6. Nile Basin Initiative
  7. Economic Community of the Great Lakes Region
  8. Conference on the Great Lakes Region
  9. OHADA
  10. International Organisation of the Francophonie

Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) Angola, Rwanda, Burundi, Central African, Gabon, Congo...

  1. African Union
  2. AUDA-NEPAD
  3. Economic Commission for Africa
  4. African Development Bank

Southern African Development Community (SADC) Customs and Trade Facilitation

Main Congolese ethnicities:

In the DR Congo the Bantu group represents 80% of the Congolese population:

  1. Luba (18%)
  2. Mongo (17%)
  3. Kongo (12%)

Religions in the DR Congo:

  1. Christianity (90% of the Congolese population). Simon Kimbangu (prophet)
    1. Catholicism (50%)
    2. Protestantism
  2. Traditional African Religions

Languages of the DR Congo

The official language of the DR Congo is French (the most populous francophone country in the world)

  1. 47% of the Congolese speak and write French
  2. In Kinshasa, 92% of the population is francophone
  3. French is the language of the education system, public administration and business

Languages with status of national language:

  1. Kikongo (2 million)
  2. Lingala (to West, vehicular language)
  3. Swahili (to the East, 10 million, vehicular language)
  4. Tshiluba

History of the DR Congo

Elikia M'Bokolo (Congolese historian) was born in Kinshasa.

Elikia M'Bokolo (Congolese Historian)

Higher Education in the DR Congo

LMD System (Bachelor, Master, Doctorate) - Ministry of Higher Education (MESU)

Universities and Higher Education Institutes in the DR Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a member of:

  1. African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education (CAMES)
  2. Francophone University Agency (AUF)

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