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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 Human ...
The following is a list of the 100 largest cities in Africa by urban population using the most recent official estimate. This reflects only cities located geographically in Africa including related islands.
Cities directly represented in the 2024–2028 National Assembly [8] [9] [10] City Province # of Com. Assembly Seats Coordinates Pre-2015 Province; Nat'l (500) Prov'l (elected) Bandundu Kwilu: 3 2 3 of 43 Bandundu: Beni: North Kivu: 4 2 2 of 44
According to the government's 2014 statistical yearbook the Congo would go from 21 cities and 227 cités in 2008 to 99 cities and 289 territorial communes in the reorganization. [6] However, in July 2015 the implementation of many of the decrees' articles were suspended following the failure in the National Assembly of an electoral bill based ...
The DRC is the second-largest diamond-producing nation in the world, [c] and artisanal and small-scale miners account for most of its production. At independence in 1960, DRC was the second-most-industrialized country in Africa after South Africa; it boasted a thriving mining sector and a relatively productive agriculture sector. [191]
In 2013, it was estimated that more than 10,000 refugees from the DRC live in the U.S., [11] of which more than 3,000 arrived in the U.S. in 2010. [10] The U.S. had hoped to resettle tens of thousands more from the DRC over the next five years. [11] There is a growing Congolese refugee population in Memphis, Tennessee, and other cities in the ...
The top six spots went to California for the highest share of million-dollar homes. San Francisco’s 81% dropped from 2022 when 84.2% of homes cost more than $1 million. San Jose took second at 80%.
This discrepancy is due to a lack of official, reliable data. Emigrants from the DRC are above all long-term emigrants, the majority of which live within Africa and to a lesser extent in Europe; 79.7% and 15.3% respectively, according to estimates on 2000 data.