Brazzaville is the capital of Congo and the national political and cultural center.
Brazzaville is located on the north bank of the lower reaches of Congo River (Zaire River), across the river from Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Evergreen all the year round, with mangoes, coconuts and tourist bananas, it is a beautiful tropical city, known as a garden city.
Brazzaville is the connection point of Congo-Atlantic railway and water transport, and also an important port of Congo River. The port has a specialized wharf with an annual throughput of 562,000 tons 198 1, mainly timber, where transit materials from Chad, Central Africa, Gabon and other countries are transported to Pointe Noire by railway.
Brazzaville is located in central and western Africa, with a savanna climate in the south and a rainforest climate in the middle and north, with high temperature and high humidity. The annual average temperature is between 18℃-30℃, the highest temperature is nearly 40℃, and the lowest temperature is 10℃. The annual average temperature in Brazzaville is 26℃.
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Rich in resources, there are oil, forests and various mineral deposits. Among them, oil and forestry are the two pillars of the economy. The remaining recoverable reserves of oil are about 265.438 billion tons, which are mainly exploited on a large scale at sea, while inland oil fields are still in the exploration stage. Natural gas reserves are about 1000 billion cubic meters. Potash reserves are about several billion tons, phosphate 6 million tons and iron ore 65.438+0 billion tons. In addition, there are metallic minerals such as aluminum, zinc and copper.
The forest area is 22 million hectares, accounting for about 60% of the national area, of which the usable area is more than10.40 billion hectares. Agriculture is backward and food cannot be self-sufficient. Wood is the second largest natural resource in Congo, with more than 300 kinds of wood, of which more than 40 kinds such as Tiemu and Prunus spinosa can be exported. Export income is second only to oil.
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