Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo?

A) Brazzaville

B) Kinshasa

C) Lubumbashi

D) Kisangani

Answer · why

B) Kinshasa

With about 18.5 million people it is the world's most populous city proper outside China and the fourth most populous capital.

Q 02/05

Between 1971 and 1997 the country was known by what name?

A) Zaire

B) Belgian Congo

C) Congo Free State

D) Katanga

Answer · why

A) Zaire

The name is a Portuguese corruption of the Kikongo nzere, 'river that swallows rivers'.

Q 03/05

The DRC gained independence in 1960 from which European country?

A) Portugal

B) France

C) Belgium

D) Germany

Answer · why

C) Belgium

It was immediately hit by secessions, the murder of its first prime minister and, in 1965, a coup.

Q 04/05

By area, the DRC is the second-largest country in Africa after which?

A) Libya

B) Sudan

C) Algeria

D) Nigeria

Answer · why

C) Algeria

At 2.35 million square kilometres it is also the eleventh-largest country in the world.

Q 05/05

The DRC is the most populous country in the world to have which official language?

A) French

B) Portuguese

C) Swahili

D) Dutch

Answer · why

A) French

About 124 million people live there, and Lingala is the most widely spoken of more than 200 indigenous languages.