Congo River
About Congo River
The Congo River, formerly also known as the Zaire River, is the second-longest river in Africa, shorter only than the Nile, as well as the third largest river in the world by discharge volume, following the Amazon and Ganges–Brahmaputra rivers. It is the world's deepest recorded river, with measured depths of around 220 m (720 ft). The Congo–Lualaba–Luvua–Luapula–Chambeshi River system has an overall length of 4,700 km (2,900 mi), which makes it the world's ninth-longest river. The Chambeshi is a tributary of the Lualaba River, and Lualaba is the name of the Congo River upstream of Boyoma Falls, extending for 1,800 km (1,100 mi).
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My favourite river that I've recently read about is the Congo River, only because it's so unfathomably deep. It's the deepest river in the world. It's 220 metres deep at the bottom. There's no light can penetrate that low.
from No Such Thing As Newsbite, 2022-06-02 at 00:21:51 · read transcript
Other times Congo River came up
Shard's the highest, I think, tallest. Wow. Yeah, so if that does happen, we all have to flee to the top of the shard, I guess. I think that's going to be the least of our problems. if all of the buildings in London get taken to the Congo River. I don't know how we've woken up with this situation being as it is, but he's got to deal with it. That's really cool.
No Such Thing As Newsbite, 2022-06-02 · listen
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Coordinates: -6.0750, 12.4500