Congo and Kongo

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Congo noun - A major African river (one of the world's longest); flows through Congo into the South Atlantic.

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Kongo and congo are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Kongo" instead a noun "Congo".

Kongo noun - The Bantu language spoken by the Kongo living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola.

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Congo and kongo are semantically related. You can use "Congo" instead a noun "Kongo".

Nearby Word: Kong

The name change was supposedly part of the Africanization, despite "Congo" already being a perfectly African name in its own right (deriving from the above-mentioned Kongo Kingdom).

Source: Useful Notes / Democratic Republic of the Congo

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