Capital Kinshasa
Largest city Kinshasa
Official language(s) French
Population
59,319,660
Currency Congolese franc
Calling code +243

The culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo reverberates the diverseness of its hundreds of cultural groups & their differing ways of life throughout the country - derived from the mouth of the River Congo on the coast, upriver across the rainforest & savanna in its center, to the more densely populated mountains in the far east.

From the late 19th century, traditional paths of spirit have undergone alters made for about by colonialism, the struggle for independency, the stagnation of the Mobutu era, and most lately, the First & Second Congo Wars.

Despite those pressures, the customs and cultures of the Congo have kept going much of their individuality. The country's 60 million people are primarily rural. The 30 percent who survive in urban regions have been the virtually open to Western influences.

The tropical rain forest* of the Democratic Republic of the Congo contain awesome biodiversity, admitting many rare & endemic species, letting in each species of chimpanzee: the Common chimpanzee and the bonobo (also known as the Pygmy chimp), mount gorilla, okapi & white rhino.

5 of the country's national parks are listed as World Heritage Sites: the Garumba, Kahuzi-Biega, Salonga & Virunga interior Parks, and the Okapi Wildlife Reserve. The civil war and resultant poor economic conditions have endangered much of this biodiversity. many park wardens were either killed or could not afford to continue their work. All 5 sites are named by UNESCO since World Heritage In Danger.

Congo is the single nation in the world in which Pygmy chimpanzees are discovered in the natural state

This combination has caused not single far flung endangerment of local fauna, but has forced humans to trudge deeper into the wilderness in seek of the desired animal meat. That overhunting results in the dyings of more animals & makes resources even more scarce for humans.

The hunting has also been facilitated by the extended logging prevailing throughout the Congo's rainforests (given by corporate logging, in addition to farmers clearing out forest in order to create areas for agriculture), that reserves hunters much easier access to previously unreachable jungle terrain, while simultaneously eroding out at the habitats of animals