The Democratic Republic of the Congo, informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in Central Africa. It is, by area, the second largest country in Africa (after Algeria) and the 11th-largest in the world. 

With a population of around 92 million, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most populous officially Francophone country in the world.