Brazzaville (population 600,000) is the
capital of the
Republic of the Congo and is located on the
Congo River. The city was founded in
1880 by a
French explorer,
Savorgnan de Brazza[?], after whom the city was named.
To distinguish between the two Congo's in Africa, the Republic of the Congo is sometimes also called Congo-Brazzaville, as opposed to Congo-Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo).
