Democratic Republic of Congo is located in Central Africa and is landlocked except for a small area that reaches the Atlantic Ocean. It has a land area of 2,345,409 km which is the 11th largest in the world and a population of over 75,000,000 which is 19th. Congo has an average annual income of $236; which is the second smallest in the world. Congo has the richest mining sites of diamonds, gold, silver, zinc, manganese, tin, germanium, uranium bauxite, iron, coal and radium and about 70% of all coltan in the world, most of which is not being mined. It is estimated that over $20 trillion in minerals are in the mines of Congo. This plus a missing $88 million owed to Congo from mining companies from other countries and the poverty of this country could be eliminated.
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