Map of DR Congo

DR Congo is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 0.0° N, 25.0° E. It shares land borders with 9 countries — Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, DR Congo is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

DR Congo shares land frontiers with the following 9 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

DR Congo covers about 2,344,858 km² (905,355 sq mi). That makes it the 11th-largest country in the world by area and the 2nd-largest in Africa, larger by area than 52 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 112,832,000, the 13th-largest in the world and the 2nd-largest in Africa, accounting for about 7.7% of the continent’s people. With that land area, DR Congo has an average population density of about 48 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 2nd by population and 2nd by area.

The seat of government is Kinshasa, and the official currency is the Congolese franc (CDF, FC), and the main official languages are French, Kikongo, Lingala, Tshiluba and Swahili. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes time zones UTC+01:00 and UTC+02:00.

DR Congo carries the ISO country codes CD and COD, dials on the international calling code +243 and uses the .cd internet domain.

DR Congo shares its land borders with 9 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Tanzania (capital Dodoma, about 68,153,004 people), Uganda (capital Kampala, about 45,905,417 people), Angola (capital Luanda, about 36,170,961 people), Zambia (capital Lusaka, about 19,693,423 people), South Sudan (capital Juba, about 15,786,898 people), Rwanda (capital Kigali, about 14,104,969 people), Burundi (capital Gitega, about 12,332,788 people), Central African Republic (capital Bangui, about 6,470,307 people) and Republic of the Congo (capital Brazzaville, about 6,142,180 people).

By area, DR Congo is larger than 9 of these neighbours and smaller than 0 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 0.0° N, 25.0° E and opens at zoom level 4, framing DR Congo within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Kinshasa. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

DR Congo lies about 0 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

DR Congo spans 2 time zones, from UTC+01:00 to UTC+02:00, reflecting the spread of its territory across the globe. Each is expressed as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); where a country covers several zones, the official local time can differ from one part of it to another.

The official currency is the Congolese franc (CDF, FC).

The official languages are French, Kikongo, Lingala, Tshiluba and Swahili, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +243 and websites commonly use the .cd internet domain.

In short, DR Congo is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 9 countries. Its capital is Kinshasa. DR Congo has a population of about 112,832,000 and covers around 2,344,858 km² (905,355 sq mi), ranking it 13th in the world by population and 11th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for DR Congo.

The flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has a sky-blue field with a yellow-edged red diagonal band that extends from the lower hoist-side corner to the upper fly-side corner of the field. A large five-pointed yellow star is situated above the diagonal band on the upper hoist side of the field.

The flag of DR Congo is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.