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Answer for the clue "Republic of the Congo capital ", 11 letters:
brazzaville

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Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo and is located on the Congo River . As of the 2007 census, it had a population of 1,373,382. The projection of the CNSEE (national statistics centre) shows an increase to 1.7 million ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
capital of Republic of Congo, named for French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852-1905), who founded it in 1883. An Italian count, his title is from the Adriatic island of Brazza , now Brač in Croatia.

Usage examples of brazzaville.

No one even took the ferry across to Brazzaville to watch the ceremony.

We’ve all been hearing for weeks now that Daniel is going to be reposted to Brazzaville.

Whereas in my duration of diplomatic service in Brazzaville, French Congo, the worst I ever had to do was fuss at the servants to cut back the scraggly hibiscus on the lawn, and clean the mold off the crystal.

There are always French and Germans and what not stopping in on their way up north to oversee one project or another, or just escaping from the city to see a little of true-life Africa before they finish up their foreign assignment in Brazzaville and go back home to their wives.

Then Adah would fly home, and Leah and I would drive as far as Brazzaville together for safety’s sake, although if you ask me two women traveling alone are twice as much trouble as one.

Anatole, fresh out of the hoosegow, met us in Brazzaville and they drove straight back home to Kinshasa.

She said she would only go if we went on down to Brazzaville first, and then brought Anatole with us.

I had to slow way down for a stop sign because the drivers in “West Africa were turning out to be as bad as the ones in Brazzaville.

Now, I have been around: the racial rioting in South Africa, hosting embassy parties in Brazzaville, shopping in Paris and Brussels, the game animals in Kenya, I have seen it all.

Last week I was forced to drive down to Brazzaville for the liquor order because I honestly could not find a driver trustworthy to come back with the liquor and car in one piece, but there was a flood on the way and two trees across the road, and when I finally got back here I kissed the floor of the bar.

The arms and troops were flown in to Saurimo, or shipped to Brazzaville in the Congo and distributed from there by light aircraft and river-launch to the MPLA cadres in their camps deep in the bush.

They refuelled in Brazzaville and then flew south and west to land on the new airstrip at Tercio base on the Chicamba river just as the sun set into the blue Atlantic Ocean.

We are receiving normal radio traffic from Luanda, Kinshasa and Brazzaville.

Ben Ackerman made most of the arrangements for equipment, supplies and itinerary including a guide to meet them in Brazzaville.

The flight from Brazzaville to Ewo was noisy as the old converted Huey did not afford much luxury.