Back Brazzaville Afrikaans ብራዛቪል Amharic Brazzaville AN برازافيل Arabic برازافيل ARZ Brazzaville AST Brazzaville AVK Brazzavil Azerbaijani Браззавиль Bashkir Brazzaville BAN
Brazzaville | |
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     Top: Brazzaville Skyline in Amilcar Cabral Avenue; Middle: World Health Organization Office, Congo River; Bottom: Brazza Mausoleum, Marien Ngouabi University | |
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  Brazzaville Map of the Republic of Congo showing Brazzaville  Brazzaville Brazzaville (Africa) | |
| Coordinates: 04°16′10″S 15°16′16″E / 4.26944°S 15.27111°E | |
| Country | Republic of the Congo |
| Capital district | Brazzaville |
| Department | Brazzaville |
| Commune | Brazzaville |
| Founded | 1883 |
| Founded by | Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Dieudonné Bantsimba |
| Area | |
| 588 km2 (227 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 320 m (1,050 ft) |
| Population (2023 census) | |
| 2,145,783 [1] | |
| • Urban | 2,557,100 |
| • Metro | 2,724,566 |
| • Official language | |
| • National languages |
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| Demonym | Brazzavillian |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (West Africa Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | (Not Observed) |
| Area code | 242 |
| HDI (2021) | 0.623[2] · medium · 1st of 12 |
| Website | www |
Brazzaville (French pronunciation: [bʁazavil], Kongo: Ntamo, Ntambo, Kintamo, Kintambo, Tandala, Mavula; Teke: M'fa, Mfaa, Mfa, Mfoa[3][4][5][6][7]) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo (Congo Republic). Administratively, it is a department and a commune.[8] Constituting the financial and administrative centre of the country, it is located on the north side of the Congo River, opposite Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo).
The population of the capital is estimated to exceed 2.1 million residents, comprising more than a third of the national populace. Some 40% are employed in non-agricultural professions. During World War II, Brazzaville served as the de facto capital of Free France between 1940 and 1942.
In 2013, Brazzaville was designated a City of Music by UNESCO; since then it has also been a member of the Creative Cities Network.[9]
- ^ BOKOLO, Guilesse (8 January 2024). "RESULTATS PRELIMINAIRES". INS-CONGO BRAZZAVILLE (in French). Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "Subnational HDI (v7.0)". Global_Data_Lab. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
- ^ Roman Adrian Cybriwsky, Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture, ABC-CLIO, USA, 2013, p. 60
- ^ Sylvie Ayimpam, Vie matérielle, échanges et capitalisme sur la rive méridionale du Pool du fleuve Congo (1815-1930), Centre d'Étude des Mondes Africains (CEMAf), 2006, p. 4 and p. 9
- ^ André JACQUOT, Lexique Laadi (Koongo), L'Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer (O.R.S.T.O.M.), 1974
- ^ Joseph ZIDI, Brazzaville : Les enjeux de la géographie des migrations (1800-2010), Université Marien Ngouabi de Brazzaville, 2016
- ^ MARTIN Phyllis M., Loisirs et société à Brazzaville pendant l'ère coloniale, KARTHALA Editions, 2006, p. 31
- ^ "Annuaire Statistique du Congo 2018, chapitre 3 : organisation administrative" (PDF). ins-congo.cg (in French). Institut National de la Statistique. 23 March 2021. p. 13. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
- ^ "Brazzaville, Zahlé, Kraków and Fabriano designated UNESCO Creative Cities". UN News. 21 October 2013. Archived from the original on 4 October 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2018.