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Prior to the creation of the Congo Free State, the International Association of the Congo (IAC) had signed treaties with over 300 native Congolese chiefs and in effect exercised sovereignty over a large area of the Congo Basin. The IAC was headquartered in Belgium and run by a committee under the presidency of Maximilien Strauch.
The highest-ranking representative of the colonial administration residing in the Belgian Congo was the Governor-General. From 1886 until 1926, the Governor-General and his administration were posted in Boma, near the Congo River estuary. From 1923, the colonial capital moved to Léopoldville, some 300 km further upstream in the interior. [22]
Governors of Orientale Province (13 P) Pages in category "Governors of provinces of the Belgian Congo" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
Belgian Congo provinces in 1933 after Léopoldville and Lusambo (Kasaï) had been separated Bandundu Province after the western provinces of Kinshasa and Bas-Congo were split out. This List of governors of Léopoldville / Bandundu includes governors of the Léopoldville Province of the Belgian Congo and its successor Republic of the Congo ...
Ruanda-Urundi (dark green) depicted within the Belgian colonial empire (light green), 1935. This is a list of European colonial administrators responsible for the territory of Ruanda-Urundi, an area equivalent to modern-day Rwanda and Burundi. Ruanda-Urundi formed part of German East Africa until it was captured by Belgian forces during World ...
Governors of provinces of the Belgian Congo (6 C, ... Pages in category "Belgian Congo officials" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Pages in category "Governors-general of the Belgian Congo" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The governance of the Belgian Congo was outlined in the 1908 Colonial Charter. [103] ... List of colonial governors of the Congo Free State and Belgian Congo;