Editing Pool Malebo (section)

{{Short description|Widening of the Congo River; part of the border between the R Congo and the DR Congo}}
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| name = Pool Malebo
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| caption = Satellite image of the Pool Malebo; the capital cities of [[Brazzaville]], [[Republic of the Congo|ROC]] and [[Kinshasa]], [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|DRC]] are indicated.
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| islands = [[Mbamu]]
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| cities = [[Brazzaville]], [[Kinshasa]] 
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The '''Pool Malebo''', formerly '''Stanley Pool''', also known as '''Mpumbu''', '''Lake Nkunda''' or '''Lake Nkuna''' by local indigenous people in [[Pre-colonial history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo|pre-colonial times]],<ref>William Graham Lister Randles, ''L’ancien royaume du Congo des origines à la fin du XIXe siècle'', Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2013, p. 44</ref><ref>Sylvie Ayimpam, ''Vie matérielle, échanges et capitalisme sur la rive méridionale du Pool du fleuve Congo (1815-1930)'', Centre d’Étude des Mondes Africains (CEMAf), 2006, p. 4</ref> is a lake-like widening in the lower reaches of the [[Congo River]].<ref name="britannica">[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/359978/Malebo-Pool "Malebo Pool"]. ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]''. Accessed June 2011.</ref> The river serves as the border between the [[Republic of the Congo]] to the north and the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] to the south.

The pool's former name was in honour of the British explorer and journalist [[Sir Henry Morton Stanley]], who mapped this area.