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Encyclopedia Britannica



KONG

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 892 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KONG , the name of a town,
district
  and range of hills in the N.W. of the
Ivory
 
Coast
  colony, French West Africa. The hills are part of the band of high ground separating the inner plains of West Africa from the
coast
  regions. In maps of the first half of the 19th century the range is shown as part of a
great
  mountain chain supposed to run
east
  and west across Africa, and is thus made to appear a continuation of the Mountains of the Moon, or the snow-clad heights of Ruwenzori. The culminating point of the Kong
system
  is the Pic des Kommono, 4757 ft. high. In general the summits of the hills are below 2000 ft. and not more than 700 ft. above the level of the country. The " circle of Kong," one of the administrative divisions of the
Ivory
  Coast colony, covers 46,000 sq. m. and has a population of some 400,000. The inhabitants are negroes, chiefly Bambara and Mandingo. About a fourth of the population profess Mahommedanism; the
remainder
  are spirit worshippers. The town of Kong, situated in 9 N., 420' W., is not now of
great
  importance. Probably Rene Caillie, who spent some time in the western part of the country in 1827, was the first European to visit Kong. In 1888 Captain L. G. Binger induced the native chiefs to place themselves under the
protection
  of France, and in 1893 the protectorate was attached to the Ivory Coast colony. For a time Kong was overrun by the armies of Samory (see
SENEGAL
 ), but the capture of that
chief
  in 1898 was followed by the peaceful development of the
district
  by France (see IVORY COAST).


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