Belgian Congo
Britishnoun
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He went on to test a candidate polio vaccine in countries including Poland, Yugoslavia, Switzerland and the Belgian Congo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
In the former Belgian Congo, Simon Kimbangu is believed to have miraculously healed a sick woman in 1921, marking the early beginnings of the Kimbanguist church.
From Barron's ● Dec. 25, 2025
Henri Lopes was born on Sept. 12, 1937, in what was then Léopoldville, later Kinshasa, the capital of what was then the Belgian Congo.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
Born in South Africa in 1921 to a French father and British mother, Phyllis was orphaned at the age of four and went to live with an uncle in Jadotville in the Belgian Congo.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2023
So Mr. Patrice will be the Prime Minister of the Congo now and it won’t be the Belgian Congo anymore, it will be the Republic of Congo.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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