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Initially they were named after their capital cities, but in 1947 regional names were adopted. [3] The Belgian Congo became an independent country in 1960, named Republic of the Congo. [citation needed] Under the first constitution, the Loi Fondementale, six provinces were provided for: Equateur, Kasai, Katanga, Kivu, Leopoldville, and ...
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.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... in the Democratic Republic of the Congo without regard to their official status. ... uses pre-2015 provinces.
The capital city of Kinshasa is a one of a kind administrative division due to article 2 of the Constitution which makes it a division of the country and gives it the status of a province. [6] In practice this means that—like a province—it has a provincial government with an elected governor and an Assembly, but—like a city—it is ...
The 25 provinces of DR Congo are divided into 145 territories (fr. territoires, sing.territoire) and 33 cities (fr. villes, sing. ville). [1] Each provincial division is also a constituency of the National Assembly as well as of the Provincial Assembly of its province.
Deutsch: Location map of Democratic Republic of the Congo Equirectangular projection. Strechted by 100.0%. Geographic limits of the map: N: 6.0° N; S: -14.0° N; W: 11.0° E; E: 32.0° E; Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. A new map with the 26 provinces (since 2015) is available here.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo [b] (DRC), also known as DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply Congo, is a country in Central Africa. By land area the country is the second-largest country in Africa and the 11th-largest in the world.
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]