Democratic Republic of the Congo

Native Name: RD Congo

Region: Africa

Capital: Kinshasa

Currencies: Congolese franc (FC)

Population: 108,407,721

Sub Region: Middle Africa

Top Level Domain: .cd

Languages: French, Kikongo, Lingala, Tshiluba, Swahili

Border Countries:

Rwanda

Central African Republic

South Sudan

Republic of the Congo

Uganda

Angola

Burundi

United Republic of Tanzania

Zambia

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.