DR Congo map quiz
Explore cities and waters of DR Congo!
Quizzes in this pack
DR Congo: cities, waters.
| Cities | 8 questions |
| Waters | 5 questions |
Sample questions
- The capital and largest city on the Congo River, Africa's third-largest urban area, facing Brazzaville across the river
- Answer: Kinshasa
- Second-largest city in the southeastern copper-mining region, capital of Haut-Katanga and economic hub of the Copperbelt
- Answer: Lubumbashi
- Third-largest city deep in the tropical rainforest on the Congo River, formerly Stanleyville, the setting of Conrad's Heart of Darkness
- Answer: Kisangani
- Eastern city on Lake Kivu at the foot of the active Nyiragongo volcano, devastated by lava flows in 2002 and 2021
- Answer: Goma
- Eastern city on the southern shore of Lake Kivu, capital of South Kivu, near Kahuzi-Biéga gorilla reserve
- Answer: Bukavu
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Kinshasa
On the Congo River
Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is one of the largest cities in Africa and the largest French-speaking city in the world, bigger than Paris. Until 1966 it was called Léopoldville, after the Belgian king Leopold II. In 1974 the boxers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman fought the famous “Rumble in the Jungle” here.
- Did you know?
- Brazzaville lies right across the river
Kisangani
On the Congo River
Kisangani lies on the Congo River at the Boyoma Falls, where boats from Kinshasa can sail no further upstream. Under Belgian rule it was called Stanleyville, and Wagenia fishermen still catch fish in the rapids with large cone-shaped baskets hung from wooden poles.
- Known for
- The Boyoma Falls, the Wagenia fishermen, the river
Bukavu
South end of Lake Kivu
Bukavu lies at the southern end of Lake Kivu, spread over hilly peninsulas that reach into the water, across from Rwanda. Old colonial villas line the shore, and the forests of Kahuzi-Biega National Park, with eastern lowland gorillas, lie to the north-west.
- Known for
- Lake Kivu, the peninsulas, gorillas nearby
Kananga
Kasai-Central
Kananga is the main city of the Kasai-Central province, called Luluabourg under Belgian rule. It lies on the railway that crosses southern Congo, and the region around it is the land of the Luba-Kasai and Lulua peoples.
- Known for
- Luluabourg, the railway, the Kasai
Lake Tanganyika
Tanzania, DR Congo, Burundi and Zambia
Lake Tanganyika lies in the Rift Valley and is shared by Tanzania, DR Congo, Burundi and Zambia. It is about 670 km long, the longest freshwater lake in the world, and the second deepest after Lake Baikal. Chimpanzees live in the forests of Gombe on its eastern shore.
- Area
- About 32,900 km²
- Greatest depth
- About 1,470 m
- Did you know?
- The deep water is so still that below about 200 m there is almost no oxygen, and almost nothing lives there
- Rings a bell?
- At Ujiji on its shore, Henry Morton Stanley found the explorer David Livingstone in 1871 and is said to have asked: “Dr Livingstone, I presume?”
Lake Kivu
Between DR Congo and Rwanda
Lake Kivu lies high in the Rift Valley between DR Congo and Rwanda, surrounded by steep green hills. Deep down the water holds huge amounts of dissolved carbon dioxide and methane, and Rwanda pumps up some of the methane to make electricity.
- Area
- About 2,700 km²
- Greatest depth
- About 480 m
- Did you know?
- Lake Kivu has neither hippos nor crocodiles, so people swim freely along its shores
How it works
Pick a quiz, then find, name or choose your answer on the 3D globe. A round has 10 questions by default, or more, up to the whole quiz. Each round picks what you need most: questions due again, new ones and the places you tend to mix up. In a short round, the questions you miss are asked once more at the end. Spaced repetition then brings them back on later days until you know them.
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