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What is the extent of the DRC
What is the life style of Pygmies?
What are the significances of the River Zaire?
Why did the Democratic Republic of Congo remain poor e
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- It is the third-largest country on the continent, covering an area of 2,345,410 sq km (905,568 sq mi), with a length of 2,276 km (1,414 mi) SSE – NNW and a width of 2,236 km (1,389 mi) ENE – WSW .
- Most pygmy communities are partially hunter-gatherers, living partially but not exclusively on the wild produc
- ts of their environment. They trade with neighbouring farmers to acquire cultivated foods and other material items; no group lives deep in the forest without access to agricultural products.
- The Congo River -- formerly called the Zaire River -- is Africa's most powerful river and the second most voluminous river in the world with a discharge of 1,500,000 cubic feet of water per second.
- Instability. Instability from years of war and political upheaval is one of the most significant causes of poverty in the DRC, while poverty and youth unemployment has ignited conflicts. ... The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was very poor before the most recent outbreak of civil war in the 1990s.
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