Common sense question, what are the differences between several countries?

1. The capital of the Republic of Guinea: Conakry:

Once upon a time, a French navigator arrived on the coast of West Africa. After landing, he asked a local woman: "What place is this?" The woman did not understand French and said "Guinea" in native dialect to indicate that she was a woman. The navigator mistakenly thought it was a place name, so it spread. There is another saying: "Guinea" evolved from the Berber word "black" or "black land", which means "black country".

The Republic of Equatorial Guinea (The Republic of Equatorial Guinea), the capital is Malabo. "Equatorial Guinea" is named because it is very close to the equator and located on the Gulf of Guinea.

The two have little relationship

2. Congo (Kinshasa) is the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and was also called "Zaire"; Congo (Brazzaville) That is, the Republic of Congo. The French names of the two countries are both "CONGO", so the abbreviations of their respective capitals are added to distinguish the two country names - "Kin" means "Kinshasa" and "Bou" means "Brazzaville".

At the end of the 13th century and the beginning of the 14th century, the Bantu people established the Kingdom of Congo in the lower reaches of the Congo River. Starting from the 15th century, Portugal, the Netherlands, England, France and Belgium invaded successively. From 1884 to 1885, the Berlin Conference that carved up Africa designated the area east of the Congo River as a Belgian colony, today's Congo (Kinshasa), and the area west of the Congo River as a French colony, today's Congo (Brazzaville). On August 15, 1960, Congo (Brazzaville) gained complete independence and was named the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Congo (DRC) became independent on June 30, 1960. The two countries belong to the same nation and their capitals face each other across the river.

3. Belarusians and Russians are not the same ethnic group. Belarus and Russia are also two countries. Russia Belarus Belarus, the white character is just a transliteration and has no actual meaning!

As for the origin of the name Belarus, it is said that the Belarusians, as the eastern branch of the Slavic people, retain more pure blood and characteristics of the ancient Slavs than the Russians and Ukrainians, so Belarus can be interpreted as "pure" Russians". It is said that in ancient times, this nation liked to wear bleached linen clothing and white cloth leggings, hence its name. It is said that the Belarusians were liberated from the rule of the Tatars, and Baiyu means freedom or liberation.

The ancestors of Belarus are the Vyadich people who lived in the middle reaches of the Dnieper River in the early AD, and the Radimich and Delegovich people who came from the west in the 6th and 7th centuries. In the 9th century, several East Slavic tribes formed the Ancient Rus tribe and established the Grand Duchy of Kievan Rus; from the 12th to the 14th century, it was divided into three parts: Belarus, Ukraine and Russia; it merged with Poland in 1569; at the end of the 18th century, it was annexed by Tsarist Russia; in 1917 The Soviet regime was established in January 1919; the "Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic" was established on January 1, 1919; Belarus joined the Soviet Union as a founding country on December 30, 1922; the "Declaration of Sovereignty" was issued on July 27, 1990; 1991 Belarus declared independence on August 25, 2005. On September 19 of the same year, the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic was renamed "Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic". On December 8, it joined the Commonwealth of Independent States as a founding member.