BPSC 45th Exam Prelims 2003 Solved Paper

Question : 65 of 150

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In which river valley are the ‘Pygmies’ the original tribes of Africa, found ?

Niger
Congo
Nile
Zambezi

Solution:

- The African Pygmies are a group of tribal ethnicities, traditionally subsisting in a forager and hunter-gatherer lifestyle, native to Central Africa, mostly the Congo Basin.
- A total number of about 900,000 Pygmies were estimated at living in the Central African Forests in 2016 about

60 \%

of this number in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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