Congo

In Africa

• Congo River, an African river
• Republic of the Congo, ("Congo-Brazzaville") an African country to the west of the Congo River
• French Congo (1880-1910)
• Democratic Republic of the Congo ("Congo-Kinshasa"), 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.

In Japan

• 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- )

In entertainment

• 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

In music

• The Congos, a Jamaican reggae duo
• "Congo" (song), a 1997 song by Genesis
• Congo or Soukous, a genre of music from the Congos

Miscellaneous

• Congo (loa), a spirit in Haitian voodoo mythology
• Common name for Amphiuma, an eellike amphibian of the southeastern United States
• 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
• Congo African Grey Parrot

People with the family name

• 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

See also

• Conga (disambiguation)
• The King of the Kongo, 1929 film serial by Mascot Pictures
• King of the Congo, 1952 film serial by Columbia Pictures