Haut-Lomami (French for "Upper Lomami") is one of the 21 new
provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Article 2 of the Constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo divides the country into the capital city of Kinshasa and 25 named provinces. It also gives the capital the status of a province. Therefore, in many contexts Kinshasa is r ...
created in the
2015 repartitioning. Haut-Lomami,
Haut-Katanga
Haut-Katanga (French for "Upper Katanga") is one of the 21 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Haut-Katanga, Haut-Lomami, Lualaba, and Tanganyika provinces are the result of the dismemberm ...
,
Lualaba, and
Tanganyika
Tanganyika may refer to:
Places
* Tanganyika Territory (1916–1961), a former British territory which preceded the sovereign state
* Tanganyika (1961–1964), a sovereign state, comprising the mainland part of present-day Tanzania
* Tanzania Main ...
provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the former
Katanga province
Katanga was one of the four large provinces created in the Belgian Congo in 1914.
It was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the Tanganyika Province, Tanganyika, Hau ...
. Haut-Lomami was formed from the
Haut-Lomami district
Haut-Lomami District was a district of the pre-2015 Katanga Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The district dates back to the days of the Belgian Congo.
At its greatest extent it roughly corresponded to the northern part of the cur ...
whose town of
Kamina
Kamina is the capital city of Haut-Lomami Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Transport
Kamina is known as an important railway node; three lines of the DRC railways run from Kamina toward the north, west, and south-east. The ...
was elevated to capital city of the new province.
Territories
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Bukama
Bukama is a town in Haut-Lomami Province of south-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. As of 2009 it had an estimated population of 42,718.
Climate
Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as a tropical savanna c ...
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Kabongo
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Kamina
Kamina is the capital city of Haut-Lomami Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Transport
Kamina is known as an important railway node; three lines of the DRC railways run from Kamina toward the north, west, and south-east. The ...
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Kaniama
Kaniama is a city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Cong ...
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Malemba-Nkulu
See also
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History of Katanga
This is a history of Katanga Province and the former independent State of Katanga, as well as the history of the region prior to colonization.
Earliest residents
Prior to Bantu migration around 500 BCE, the area was probably the site of dwellings ...
References
Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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