Republic of the Congo caused me problems, lots of problems. First – when researching Republic of Congo, you quickly realize that many sights on the Internet don’t differentiate between Republic of Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo. There ought to be a law about naming countries – no duplicating key words, it just confuses the masses. (By the way, a little note, I’m using the alphabetization of the United Nations, they ignore things like “Republic of”, which is why Congo comes next – however in the case of Democratic Republic of the Congo, they kept the “Democratic” for purposes of alphabetization – it all gets confusing, but there is some logic here…I think). So, Republic of Congo (here after referred to as Congo) is a country in Central Africa along the west coast. It’s bordered by Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.