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When Belgium annexed the Belgian Congo as a colony in November 1908, it was initially organised into 22 districts. Ten western districts were administered directly by the main colonial government, while the eastern part of the colony was administered under two vice-governments: eight northeastern districts formed Orientale Province, and four southeastern districts formed Katanga.
The territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are administrative divisions of provinces. Territories are further divided into sectors , chiefdoms , and communes . They are led by an administrator and, for the most part, take the name of the town that is their administrative center.
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.
Those three provinces and all other districts were divided into territories. Most provinces also included cities, which were independent of the districts; in turn those were divided into communes. Districts and cities, other than the capital city of Kinshasa, and their territories or communes consist of the following: [5]
The ISO 3166 standard contains three parts: ISO 3166-1 – Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes [2] defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas
28 provinces or regions (oblasti, области) 265 municipalities (obshtini, общини) wards or quarters (rayon) mayoralties (kmetstvo) settlements (naseleno myasto) Burkina Faso: Unitary 13 regions (régions) 45 provinces: 325 departments (départements) [m] Burundi: Unitary 18 provinces: 119 communes: 2,639 collines [n] Cambodia ...
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, chiefdoms (fr. chefferies) and sectors (fr. secteurs) are rural administrative divisions of territories (fr. territoires). They are further subdivided into groupings (fr. groupements) which themselves are divided into villages. Chiefdoms and groupings are led by traditional leaders officially recognized ...
Former provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1966–2015) (5 C, 7 P) Former provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (pre-1966) (12 P) People from the Democratic Republic of the Congo by province (28 C, 1 P)