The Democratic Republic of the Congo, otherwise called DR Congo or essentially the Congo, is a nation situated in Central Africa. It is in some cases misguidedly alluded to by its previous name of Zaire, which was its official name somewhere in the range of 1971 and 1997. It is, by zone, the biggest nation in Sub-Saharan Africa, the second-biggest in all of Africa (after Algeria), and the eleventh biggest on the planet. Just Republic of the Congo is the most populated authoritatively Francophone nation, the fourth-most-populated nation in Africa, and the sixteenth most-populated nation on the planet. Focused on the Congo Basin, the region of the DRC was first occupied by Central African foragers around 90,000 years prior and was come to by the Bantu development around 3,000 years back. In the west, the Kingdom of Kongo led around the mouth of the Congo River from the fourteenth to nineteenth hundreds of years. In the inside and east, the kingdoms of Luba and Lunda ruled from the sixteenth and seventeenth hundreds of years to the nineteenth century. During the 1870s, just before the beginning of the Scramble for Africa, European investigation of the Congo Basin was done, first driven by Henry Morton Stanley under the sponsorship of King Leopold II of the Belgians. Leopold formally gained rights to the Congo domain at the Berlin Conference in 1885 and made the land his private property, naming it the Congo Free State. Amid the Free State, the frontier military unit, the Force Publique, constrained the neighborhood populace to deliver elastic, and from 1885 to 1908, a large number of Congolese passed on as a result of sickness and misuse. In 1908, Belgium, in spite of beginning hesitance, formally added the Free State, which turned into the Belgian Congo. The Belgian Congo accomplished autonomy on 30 June 1960 under the name Republic of the Congo. On 25 November 1965, Army Chief of Staff Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, who later renamed himself Mobutu Sese Seko, authoritatively came into power through an overthrow. In 1971, he renamed the nation Zaire. The nation was kept running as a tyrannical one-party state, with his Popular Movement of the Revolution as the sole lawful gathering. On 17 May 1997, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, a pioneer of Tutsi powers from the region of South Kivu, moved toward becoming President after Mobutu fled to Morocco, returning the nation's name to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is very wealthy in characteristic assets.

Kinshasa, earlier Léopoldville, is the capital and the biggest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The city is arranged close by the Congo River. When a site of angling and exchanging towns, Kinshasa is currently a megacity with an expected populace of in excess of 11 million. It faces Brazzaville, the capital of the neighboring Republic of the Congo, which can be found out there over the wide Congo River, making them the world's second-nearest pair of capital urban areas after Rome and Vatican City. The city of Kinshasa is additionally one of the DRC's 26 territories. Since the managerial limits of the city-territory spread a tremendous region, more than 90 percent of the city-region's property is country in nature, and the urban zone possesses a little however extending segment on the western side. Kinshasa is Africa's third-biggest urban region after Cairo and Lagos.

The okapi (Okapia johnstoni), otherwise called the woods giraffe, congolese giraffe or zebra giraffe, is an artiodactyl well evolved creature local toward the upper east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa. Despite the fact that the okapi has striped markings reminiscent of zebras, it is most firmly identified with the giraffe. The okapi and the giraffe are the main living individuals from the family Giraffidae. The okapi remains about 1.5 m (4.9 ft) tall at the shoulder and has a normal body length around 2.5 m (8.2 ft). Its weight ranges from 200 to 350 kg (440 to 770 lb). It has a long neck, and vast, adaptable ears. Its jacket is a chocolate to rosy darker, much conversely with the white flat stripes and rings on the legs and white lower legs. Male okapis have short, hair-shrouded, horn-like bulges on their heads called ossicones, under 15 cm (5.9 in) long. Females have hair whorls, and ossicones are missing. Okapis are essentially diurnal, however might be dynamic for a couple of hours in murkiness. They are basically singular, meeting up just to breed. Okapis are herbivores, benefiting from tree leaves and buds, grasses, plants, organic products, and parasites. Okapis possess overhang timberlands at heights of 500– 1,500 m (1,600– 4,900 ft). They are endemic to the tropical woods of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where they happen over the focal, northern, and eastern areas.