General Characteristics of the DRC :
Geographical Characteristics:
Situated in the heart of Africa, the DRC has a land
area of 2,345,000 Km², which makes it the third largest country in Africa, after Algeria and
Sudan.
It shares 9,165 km-long boundaries with the Central African Republic (CAR) and
Sudan to the north, Zambia and Angola to the south, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania
and Zambia to the east, and the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) to the west, Angola’s 3
Cabinda Enclave and a 40 km narrow strip on the Atlantic coast.
On account of its regional location, the DRC is classified under Central
Africa and forms part of both the Congo Basin and the Nile Basin
The DRC is both equatorial and tropical and has a diversity of local ecology
and climates due to a combination of several factors: physiography,
Temperature, rain fall, duration of seasons, impact of human activities on the
natural environment and its position bestriding the Equator.
Annual rain fall ranges from 800 mm along the Atlantic coast through 2,200 mm in the central basin to 2,500
mm in the mountainous regions east of the country where it may even exceed 3,000 mm. Furthermore, three-
quarters (¾) of the territory is covered by a wide variety of forests, which constitute the natural habitat of rich
flora and teeming wildlife:
The DRC is ranked the first African country in terms of the vast expanse of its forests and
conservation of the global environment.
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