ABSTRACT
A mostly Bantu nation In central Equatorial Africa, Zaire is sub-Saharan Africa's largest nation with a land area of 2.35 million square kilometres (905,100 square miles), about onequarter the size of the United States. With a small coastline along the south Atlantic Ocean, it is bordered by Congo and the Central African Republic to the west and north, by Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Zambia to the north, east and southeast, and Angola to the south. Its population in 1994 was estimated at 42.6 million.
