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Formal Name: Republic of Zaire.
Short Form: Zaire.
Term for Citizen(s): Zairian(s).
Capital: Kinshasa.
Date of Independence: June 30, 1960, from Belgium.
National Holidays: June 30, Independence Day; November 24, celebrating establishment of Second Republic on November 24, 1965.
Data as of December 1993