Country profile / CD
DR Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Locally: RD Congo · Repubilika ya Kongo Demokratiki · Republiki ya Kongó Demokratiki · Ditunga dia Kongu wa Mungalaata · Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo
Capital
Kinshasa
Region
Africa
ISO
CD
Local time in DR Congo
live · IANAMaputo
Africa/Maputo
Lagos
Africa/Lagos
Reference ledger
A sense of scale
area percentileLarger than 95% of places in this atlas.
At 2,344,858 km², DR Congo ranks 12 of 241 records by land area. This comparison uses the same bundled source for every profile, so the scale is internally consistent.
Land neighbors
9Use these identifiers accurately
The two-letter code CD is the compact ISO identifier used in addresses, locale selectors, and many data feeds. The dialing prefix +243 belongs at the start of an international phone number. Time zone names such as Africa/Maputo should be preferred over a fixed UTC offset because they carry daylight-saving rules.
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