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Bernd Michael Wiese
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LOCATION: Koln 41, D-5000, Germany
Lecturer in Geography, University of Cologne. Author of Zaire and others.
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Democratic Republic of the Congo, country located in central Africa. Officially known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the country has a 25-mile (40-km) coastline on the Atlantic Ocean but is otherwise landlocked. It is the second largest country on the continent; only Algeria is larger.…
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