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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 ...
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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
Zaire, [c] officially the Republic of Zaire, [d] was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1971 to 18 May 1997. Located in Central Africa, it was, by area, the third-largest country in Africa after Sudan and Algeria, and the 11th-largest country in the world from 1965 to 1997.
This was put into effect in 2015, when the six largest provinces were split into twenty-one new provinces. 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]
This is a list of renamed places in the Republic of the Congo. Cities. Ncouna → Brazzaville (1884) Dolisie → Loubomo (1975) → Dolisie (1991) Jacob → Nkayi (1975)
Pages in category "Populated places in the Democratic Republic of the Congo" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Under Belgian colonial rule, the province was known as Bas-Congo (as in "Lower Congo River") and was renamed Kongo Central after independence. [7] [8] Under the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko from 1965 to 1997, the Congo river was renamed as Zaire. The province was named as Bas-Zaïre. The name was later reverted to Bas-Congo.