• Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo.
• The location of Brazzaville near the pool of the Congo River enabled it to grow as an industrial, trading and port settlement. It was connected through trade by ships and boats traveling upriver to inland areas, which produced raw materials from the beginning of the colonial period.
• The economy is a mixture of village agriculture and handicrafts, an industrial sector based mainly on petroleum, support services, and a government characterized by budget problems and overstaffing. Petroleum extraction has supplanted forestry as the mainstay of the economy.
• In 2008, the oil sector accounted for 65% of the GDP, 85% of government revenue, and 92% of exports.
• The country also has large untapped mineral wealth.

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• French