Middle Congo

British  

noun

1. one of the four territories of former French Equatorial Africa, in W central Africa: became an autonomous member of the French Community, as the Republic of the Congo, in 1958

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Example Sentences

I may remark that in many districts of the South-West coast and middle Congo it is customary when a person dies in an unexplainable way, namely without shedding blood, to hold a post-mortem.

From Project Gutenberg

Inhabitants and Chief Towns.—A census, necessarily imperfect, taken in 1906 showed a total population, exclusive of Wadai, of 3,652,000, divided in districts as follows:—Gabun, 376,000; Middle Congo, 259,000; Ubangi-Shari, 2,130,000; Chad, 885,000.

From Project Gutenberg

The Middle Congo has for its western frontier the Gabun colony and Cameroon, and extends inland to the easterly bend of the Ubangi river; the two circumscriptions extend east and north of the Middle Congo.

From Project Gutenberg

To answer that question we will need to determine, for each species unique to the lower Congo, where its closest relative comes from — the Kasai or the middle Congo.

From New York Times

August 16, 2010, 6:02 pm Beyond the Congo: Fishing for Different Species in Smaller Rivers and Tributaries Hemichromis stellifer – a beautiful cichlid fish, with populations in the lower and middle Congo, and we have also found them in the Kasai River.

From New York Times