The democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) became the 106th Member State of the BIE on September 28, 2007.

The democratic Republic of Congo in long form, is a vast country of central Africa which extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the plate of the east and corresponds to the major part of the basin of the Congo river.

The north of the country is one of the greatest fields of equatorial forest in the world, is country borders the great East-African rift, field of the mountains, the hills, the large lakes but also of the volcanos.

The south and the center, field of raised savannas, form a high plateau rich in ore.

In the extreme west, forty kilometers in the north of the mouth of the Congo river are spread out a coast over the Atlantic Ocean. The country divides its borders with the enclave of Cabinda (Angola) and the Republic of Congo in the west, Central African Republic and Sudan in north, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania in the east, Zambia and Angola in the south.

More than 500 ethnos groups of different African black groups form the population of the country.

Official languages: French (the lingala, the kikongo, the swahili and the tchiluba have the statute of national languages)

Capital: Kinshasa

Surface: 2.345.000 km 2

Population: 62.660.551 hab

Currency: Frank Congolese (CDF)