Belgian Congo.
The Belgian Congo, once called the Congo Free State, Zaire, and now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was defined in the nineteenth century by the hydrography of the Congo River. When the representatives of European states partitioned Africa without having knowledge of the interior of the continent—or, for that matter, of its inhabitants—they found river systems a convenient framework for establishing borders and as the nucleus of a water-based transportation system.... ...
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