Brazzaville
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| Coordinates | 4 ° 15 ′ S , 15 ° 15 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Republic of the Congo | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | CG-BZV | ||
| height | 320 m | ||
| surface | 100 km² | ||
| Residents | 1,827,000 (2014) | ||
| density | 18,270 Ew. / km² | ||
| founding | 1883 | ||
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| Mayor | Christian Roger Okemba | ||
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| Twin cities |
 Dresden , Germany Washington, DC , USA Dakar , Senegal 
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 Satellite image: The location of Brazzaville on the Congo River
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Brazzaville [French brazaˈvil ] is the capital of the Republic of the Congo with around 1.83 million inhabitants (as of January 1, 2014, UN estimate).
geography
Brazzaville is across from Kinshasa at the western end of Pool Malebo , a damming of the Congo . Both cities are connected by a ferry . The city and thus the capital district borders in the north on the Pool department and in the south on the Democratic Republic of the Congo , the former Zaire.
A landmark of the city that is visible from afar is the 106-meter-high Tour Nabemba .
history
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The city is named after the Italian nobleman Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza , who was in French service and who built a trading and missionary station on this site in 1883, from which the city developed. The station was located on the right (northern) bank of the local, lake-like extended point of the Congo Pool Malebo River . The area of the station was given to Brazza in a treaty in 1880 by the local king Makoko of the Teke tribe.
Since 1898 Brazzaville was the capital of French Equatorial Africa . The population rose from around 5,000 at the turn of the century to around 100,000 in 1950. In 1940, French Congo joined the so-called Free France , ie part of France that was not occupied by the Germans during World War II. Brazzaville was the capital of "Free France" for a short time from October 26, 1940, before the seat was finally relocated to Algiers , Algeria. The leader of "France Libre", General Charles de Gaulle , who was in exile in London , had a permanent seat of government here, the current residence of the French ambassador ("Case de Gaulle"). In January 1944, the Brazzaville Conference on the future order in the French colonial empire took place here under the direction of General de Gaulle .
The oldest building in the city that still exists is the brick-style cathedral, built around 1900, which developed from the Catholic mission station located there (today the seat of the Archbishop of Brazzaville). France has left numerous other architecturally remarkable buildings and structures in the city, both of the traditional so-called colonial architecture and of the classical modernism influenced by the Bauhaus tradition and Le Corbusier (including architect Roger Errell, Sainte Anne church, "Case de Gaulle", so-called Air France building, Cinéma Vogue, seat of the treasury, building of today's Russian embassy, several administrative buildings).
The founder of this former French colony, de Brazza, is not seen by the Congolese as a colonizer in the otherwise usual negative sense, but revered as the founder of the Congolese state. His remains are located in a large dome that is also a museum ("Mémorial de Brazza").
coat of arms
The coat of arms is quartered . In the first field in red a right-hand silver flag (flagpole with pennant), in the second field in blue a golden elephant head en face with a right-hand trunk and accompanied by three golden lilies in a row above and one next to the head. The third field shows red diamonds in gold (2: 1) (three upright leaves of the cassava plant ), in the last field in silver a black post .
Economy and Infrastructure
Brazzaville is an important junction for shipping on the Congo upstream (the river is no longer navigable from Brazzaville downstream) and the end point of a single-track railway line to the Atlantic coast to the deep-sea port of Pointe-Noire . The city's international airport is called Brazzaville Maya-Maya . The so-called wooden port (port à grumes) for timber transports from the north is currently being modernized and expanded. The national road leading north from Brazzaville to the border with Cameroon is now completely paved. It leads north of the equator from the provincial town of Makoua through untouched tropical rainforest, making it one of the most scenic car routes in Africa.
Along with Pointe Noire, Brazzaville is the center of the beverage industry and the center of a developing banking and insurance world for Central Africa.
Brazzaville is the official seat of the regional organization of the World Health Authority WHO for the entire sub-Saharan African continent including Morocco ("Cité OMS") and thus the largest regional organization of the Geneva-based headquarters of this UN agency. With the University of Marien Ngouabi and several affiliated institutes, the city has a developing tropical medicine research landscape .
Brazzaville Maya-Maya International Airport
Brazzaville Stadium
Tour Nabemba , symbol of power of the communist government
Taxis in Brazzaville
Brazzaville in 2005
Town twinning
Brazzaville maintains the following cities twinning :
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Windhoek , since the end of July 2011 -
Dresden , Germany, since 1975
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Washington, DC , USA
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Dakar , Senegal
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Reims , France , (officially since 1961) revived in November 2011
Sports
The JS Talangaï football club is based in Brazzaville.
sons and daughters of the town
- Bienvenu Manamika Bafouakouahou (* 1964), Catholic clergyman, coadjutor archbishop of Brazzaville
- Emile Biayenda (* 1965), jazz percussionist
- Franck Elemba (* 1990), shot putter
- Oscar Ewolo , Congolese national soccer player
- Rolf-Christel Guié-Mien (* 1977) German-Congolese soccer player
- Serge Ibaka (* 1989), Spanish-Congolese basketball player
- Franchel Ibara (* 1989), Congolese soccer player
- Bill Kouélany (* 1965), painter, playwright , participation in the Documenta Kassel
- Aurlus Mabélé (1953–2020), Soukous singer and composer of
- Camille Oponga , Congolese soccer player
- Wilfried N'Sondé (* 1968), French writer and musician
- Francine Ntoumi , Macrobiologist and World's Leading Malaria Researcher
- Marcel Gotène , most important representative of the Poto-Poto painting school
Climate table
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Brazzaville
Source: wetterkontor.de
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