Donkey Kong Country (スーパードンキーコング, Super Donkey Kong in Japan) is a platformer game developed by Rareware and first released for the Super Family Computer/Super Nintendo Entertainment System by Nintendo in 1994. The popular game is credited for its successful spin-off debut of Nintendo's very first game antagonist Donkey Kong from a decade before the game's release, as well as starting a new franchise entirely based around new characters and gameplay. While Rare had made some popular games in the past, such as Battletoads for Famicom/NES, Donkey Kong Country is credited with making them well-known in the industry.

The game is known for being the first game to use pre-rendered sprites, creating a three-dimensional effect throughout the game. The graphics were made with expensive Silicon 3D graphic models and compressed into two-dimensional for the SFC/SNES. This allowed them to have more detail in animations, for a 16-bit console, which was revolutionary at the time.

The game was very successful, since it sold over 8 million units and spawned a sub-series in the Donkey Kong franchise making several sequels, the Donkey Kong Land trilogy, Donkey Kong Country 2, Donkey Kong Country 3 and Donkey Kong 64. It is often viewed as a cult classic.

The game Donkey Kong Country was also remade by Rare and released for the Game Boy Color (as Donkey Kong 2001 in Japan) and Game Boy Advance (as Super Donkey Kong in Japan) in 2000-2001 and 2003, respectively.

The SFC/SNES version of Donkey Kong Country was re-released on the Virtual Console for Nintendo Wii in Europe on December 8, 2006, in Japan on December 12, 2006, in North America on February 19, 2007, and in South Korea on May 26, 2008. However, the service was discontinued for Wii in January 2019.

The same game version was later re-released on the Virtual Console for Nintendo Wii U in Europe on October 16, 2014, in Japan on November 26, 2014, and in North America on February 26, 2015. The game was also available on the Virtual Console for Nintendo 3DS in Japan on March 4, 2016, and in North America and Europe on March 24, 2016.

The SFC/SNES version of the game was re-released again on the Nintendo Switch exclusively through the online subscription service Nintendo Switch Online worldwide on July 15, 2020.

Years later, this sub-series would be taken over by Retro Studios, alongside Monster Games, and they have so far made the game sequels Donkey Kong Country Returns, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.