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Map of the Belgian Congo, 1914. This is a list of place names of towns and cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo which were subsequently changed after the end of Belgian colonial rule. Place names of the colonial era tended to have two versions, one in French and one in Dutch, reflecting the two main languages of Belgium. Many of these ...
This is a list of renamed places in the Republic of the Congo. Cities. Ncouna → Brazzaville (1884) Dolisie → Loubomo (1975) → Dolisie (1991)
Map of DR Congo. This is a list of places, mostly cities and towns, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo without regard to their official status. Administrative units
Lists of renamed cities (17 P) ... List of renamed places in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; List of renamed places in the Republic of the Congo; E.
This is a list of cities and towns whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history. It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time. see also: Geographical renaming, List of names of European cities in different languages, and List of renamed places in the United States
In a campaign to identify himself with African nationalism, starting on 1 June 1966, Mobutu renamed the nation's cities: Léopoldville became Kinshasa (the country was known as Congo-Kinshasa), Stanleyville became Kisangani, Elisabethville became Lubumbashi, and Coquilhatville became Mbandaka.
Wikipedia categories named after populated places in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (29 C) Pages in category "Populated places in the Democratic Republic of the Congo" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Together with the four unsplit provinces—Bas-Congo (renamed Kongo Central), Maniema, Nord-Kivu, and Sud-Kivu—they make up the twenty-five provinces listed in Article 2 of the Constitution. [3] [4] Under the old organization the six former provinces were divided into districts and cities. The districts were further divided into territories.