Congo River Congo River The great Congo River (also spelled Kongo River and known as the Zaire River; ; ; ) is the second longest river in Africa, shorter only than the Nile, as well as the second largest river in the world by discharge volume, following only the Amazon. It is also the world's deepest recorded river, with measured depths in excess of . The Congo-Lualaba-Chambeshi River system has an overall length of , which makes it the world's ninth-longest river. The Chambeshi is a tributary of the Lualaba River, and "Lualaba" is the name of the Congo River upstream of
Longest words goaty-legged-above-and-under-general-war-commanding-sergeant") as a parody on the long Danish military titles. This word is 54 letters long. Dutch, like many Germanic languages, is capable of forming compounds of potentially limitless length. The 53-letter word "Kindercarnavalsoptochtvoorbereidingswerkzaamhedenplan", meaning "preparation activities plan for a children's carnival procession", was cited by the 1996 Guinness Book of World Records as the longest Dutch word. The longest word in the authoritative Van Dale Dutch dictionary (2009 edition) "in plural form" is "; 38 letters long, meaning "multiple personality disorders". The entry in the dictionary however is in the singular, counting 35 letters. The free OpenTaal dictionary, which