Brazzaville

[ braz-uh-vil, brah-zuh-; French bra-za-veel ]

noun

1. a port in and the capital of the People's Republic of the Congo, in the S part, on the Congo (Zaire) River: former capital of French Equatorial Africa.

Brazzaville

/ brazavil /

noun

1. the capital of Congo-Brazzaville, in the south on the River Congo. Pop: 1 153 000 (2005 est)

Word History and Origins

Origin of Brazzaville¹

C19: named after Pierre de Brazza (1852–1905), French explorer

Example Sentences

Project Taara aims to bridge a connectivity gap between the Republic of the Congo’s Brazzaville and the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kinshasa.

From Singularity Hub 

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, partnered with Liquid Intelligent Technologies to bridge a 3-mile connectivity gap between Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo and Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

From Popular-Science

“I thought his response on AIDS were not the best,” said Abdul-Karim Sango of Congo-Brazzaville.

From The Daily Beast

Another route surveyed for a railway is that from Loango to Brazzaville.

From Project Gutenberg

He has a house at Brazzaville built of mahogany, and a grand piano, and his own ice-plant.

From Project Gutenberg