Republic of the Congo
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- CG
- ISO alpha-3
- COG
- ISO numeric
- 178
- FIPS 10-4
- CF
- GeoNames ID
- 2260494
Key facts
- Capital
- Brazzaville
- Area
- 342,000 km²
- Population
- 5,244,363
- Currency
- Franc (XAF)
- Calling code
- +242
- Top-level domain
- .cg
- Official languages
- fr-CG,kg,ln-CG
Continent
- Name
- Africa
- Code
- AF
- In this dataset
- 58 countries
Location
- Latitude
- -1
- Longitude
- 15.5
- Min latitude
- -5.019630835999919
- Min longitude
- 11.114016304109821
- Max latitude
- 3.7082760620000528
- Max longitude
- 18.642406860000023
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/CG?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 342000,
"capital": "Brazzaville",
"continent_code": "AF",
"currency_code": "XAF",
"iso3_code": "COG",
"iso_code": "CG",
"name": "Republic of the Congo",
"population": 5244363
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/CG/regions/v1/cities?country=CG/v1/postal-codes?country=CG/v1/timezones?country=CG
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- جمهورية الكونغو
- Chinese
- 刚果共和国
- English
- Congo Republic
- French
- République du Congo
- German
- Republik Kongo
- Hindi
- कोंगो
- Italian
- Repubblica del Congo
- Japanese
- コンゴ共和国
- Korean
- 콩고 공화국
- Portuguese
- Congo
- Russian
- Республика Конго
- Spanish
- Congo
- Total language variants
- 137
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Africa/Brazzaville | UTC+01:00 | UTC+01:00 |
First-level administrative regions
- Brazzaville department
- Région du Kouilou
- Pointe-Noire
- Région de la Bouenza
- Pool
- Région du Niari
- Plateaux
- Cuvette
- Likouala
- Sangha
- Lékoumou
- Cuvette-Ouest
12 of 12 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Brazzaville | 1,982,000 |
| Pointe-Noire | 1,032,000 |
| Dolisie | 121,000 |
| Nkayi | 103,000 |
| Kayes | 58,737 |
| Impfondo | 48,939 |
| Ouesso | 40,667 |
| Owando | 35,698 |
| Sibiti | 33,122 |
| Loutété | 27,726 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 5,807
- First-level regions
- 12
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 137
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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