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The Third Republic of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a unitary state with a five-level hierarchy of types of administrative division.There are nine different types of country subdivision in a new hierarchy with no new types but with two from the previous one abolished.
The Republic of the Congo is divided into 12 départements (départements). Departments are divided into communes and/or districts; [1] which are further subdivided into urban communities (communautés urbaines) and rural communities (communautés rurales); which are further subdivided into quarters or neighborhoods (quartiers) and villages.
Human settlements can be one of the following subdivisions of the DR Congo: cities, communes, groupings (fr. groupements) and villages; or may not be an administrative division at all. Towns and cities
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 25 provinces of DR Congo are divided into 33 cities (fr. villes, sing.ville) and 145 territories (fr. territoires, sing. territoire). [1] Each provincial division is also a constituency of the National Assembly as well as of the Provincial Assembly of its province.
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.
The communes of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are administrative divisions of both cities and territories. They are led by government appointed burgomasters (fr. bourgmestres ) and are further divided into quarters (fr. quartiers ) and embedded groupings (fr. groupements incorporé ).
Democratic Republic of the Congo subdivision templates (1 C, 14 P) F. Former subdivisions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (3 C, ...