| 100% | LUALABA | 7 | River of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; a headstream of the Congo River |
| 77% | EBOLA | 5 | River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after which a severe infectious viral disease is named |
| 65% | ARUWIMI | 7 | River in NE Democratic Republic of the Congo that rises near Lake Albert as the Ituri |
| 65% | ARUWIMI | 7 | River in northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo that rises near Lake Albert as the Ituri |
| 63% | SESE | 4 | Mobutu ___ Seko, who seized power in a bloodless coup in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1965 |
| 61% | KINSHASA | 8 | Capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| 61% | LUALABA | 7 | River of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo on which Ankoro stands |
| 60% | ZAIRE | 5 | Former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| 59% | ZAIRE | 5 | Name, from 1971-97, of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| 58% | BOMA | 4 | Port in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; capital of the Belgian Congo until 1926 |
| 58% | KINSHASA | 8 | Democratic Republic of the Congo capital |
| 58% | ZAIRE | 5 | Democratic Republic of the Congo, once |
| 58% | ZAIRE | 5 | Former name for the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| 58% | OKAPI | 5 | Mammal endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| 58% | DRC | 3 | Democratic Republic of the Congo for short |
| 58% | ZAIRE | 5 | Democratic Republic of the Congo, before 1997 |
| 58% | ARUWIMI | 7 | River in the NE Democratic Republic of Congo that rises near Lake Albert as the Ituri |
| 57% | ZAIRE | 5 | Democratic Republic of the Congo, prior to 1997 |
| 57% | ZAIRE | 5 | Democratic Republic of the Congo at one time |
| 56% | OKAPIS | 6 | Hoofed animals in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ituri Rainforest |
| 55% | BELGIANCONGO | 12 | Name by which the Democratic Republic of the Congo was known from 1908-60 |
| 55% | LUBUMBASHI | 10 | University city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo founded in 1910 as Elisabethville |
| 53% | KASAI | 5 | Tributary of the Congo River that forms part of the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola |
| 53% | ZAIRE | 5 | Country name that replaced (and was later replaced by) Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| 47% | MWERU | 5 | Lake —, body of water on the Zambia-Democratic Republic of the Congo border |
| 47% | CONGO | 5 | Democratic Republic of the ___ |
| 47% | PATRICELUMUMBA | 14 | Pan-Africanist who served as the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| 46% | CONGO | 5 | Democratic Republic of the ___ (African nation) |
| 45% | OPEC | 4 | Republic of the Congo joined it in 2018 |
| 45% | CONGO | 5 | African country, Democratic Republic of the __ |