Congo
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Congo, Kongo, or Kongō may refer to:
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- Congo River, an African river
- Republic of the Congo, an African country to the west of the Congo River
- French Congo (1880-1910)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo, an African country to the east of the Congo River
- Congo Free State (1885-1908)
- Belgian Congo (1908-1960)
- Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) (1960-1964)
- Zaire (1971 – 1997)
- Kingdom of Kongo (1400-1914), which comprised parts of present-day Angola, Cabinda, the Republic of the Congo, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Kongo dia Nlaza, small eastern kingdom absorbed into the Kingdom of Kongo in the 16th century
- Kongo people, an ethnic group in both Congos and Angola, sometimes referred to as Congolese
- Kongo language, sometimes called Kikongo, the Bantu language spoken by the Kongo people, and the base for the Kituba language
- Portuguese Congo, now the Angolan exclave of Cabinda
- Congo craton, an ancient and stable piece of continental crust
- 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
- Congolian forests, the Congo basin forests.
- Mount Kongō, a mountain in Osaka prefecture
- Japanese corvette Kongō (1877)
- Kongō class battlecruiser
- Japanese battleship Kongō (1913-1945)
- Kongō class destroyer
- JDS Kongō (DDG-173), (1993- )
- Congo (novel), a 1980 novel by Michael Crichton
- Congo (film), a 1995 film based on Crichton's novel
- 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 anime series
- The Congos, a Jamaican reggae duo
- "Congo" (song), a 1997 song by Genesis
- Congo or Soukous, a genre of music from the Congos
- Congo (dog), a controversial German shepherd euthanized for a series of attacks on humans
- Congo (loa), a spirit in Haitian voodoo mythology
- Common name for Agkistrodon piscivorus, a venomous snake
- Congo Peafowl, a bird species
- CONGO or the Conference of NGOs, a worldwide group of charity and aid organizations
- Kongo or yawara, 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), American singer and guitarist
- Conga (disambiguation)
- The King of the Kongo, 1929 film serial by Mascot Pictures
- King of the Congo, 1952 film serial by Columbia Pictures
