


The national capital and largest city is Kinshasa, which is also the economic center. With a population of around 112 million, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most populous officially Francophone country in the world. By land area, the DRC is the second-largest country in Africa, after Algeria, and the 11th-largest in the world. The Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC), also known as Congo-Kinshasa and formerly known as Zaire, is a country in Central Africa.
