Kongolo is a town in
Tanganyika Province
Tanganyika is one of the 21 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Tanganyika, Haut-Katanga, Haut-Lomami and Lualaba provinces are the result of the splitting up of the former Katanga provinc ...
in 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 Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...
.
It is located on the west bank of the
Lualaba River
The Lualaba River flows entirely within the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It provides the greatest streamflow to the Congo River, while the source of the Congo is recognized as the Chambeshi. The Lualaba is long. Its headwaters are in ...
, the largest headstream of the
Congo River
The Congo River ( kg, Nzâdi Kôngo, french: Fleuve Congo, pt, Rio Congo), formerly also known as the Zaire River, is the second longest river in Africa, shorter only than the Nile, as well as the second largest river in the world by discharge ...
. It has 62,455 inhabitants.
Namesakes
There are plenty of other towns in Congo with the same name.
Transport
Kongolo is served by a railway station on the national system, which bridges the
Lualaba river
The Lualaba River flows entirely within the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It provides the greatest streamflow to the Congo River, while the source of the Congo is recognized as the Chambeshi. The Lualaba is long. Its headwaters are in ...
at this point via the
Kongolo Bridge. The city lies across the river from Regional Road 631 (R631), linking
Kayuyu,
Lubao
Lubao, officially the Municipality of Lubao ( pam, Balen ning Lubao; fil, Bayan ng Lubao), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Pampanga, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 173,502 people.
It is noted f ...
,
Kabalo Kabalo is a town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is in Tanganyika province on the Lualaba River and is the administrative center of Kabalo territory.
Transport
Kabalo is the junction of railway lines to the north and to Lake Tanganyi ...
, Kongolo and
Nyunzu
Nyunzu is a town in Tanganyika Province (formerly in Katanga Province), in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally ...
; and is also on the (much smaller) Regional Road 632 (R632).
Kongolo Massacre
On 1 January 1962, one Dutch and nineteen Belgian missionaries, including the
Crauwels brothers, , and were killed by radical elements of the
Congolese army
Congolese or Kongolese may refer to:
African peoples
* Congolese people (disambiguation)
* Kongo people, a Bantu ethnic group who live along the Atlantic coast of Africa from Pointe-Noire (Republic of Congo) to Luanda, Angola, primarily defined by ...
. In June 2019, bishop Oscar Ngoy wa Mpanga of the diocese of Kongolo announced the initiation of the beatification process of the one Dutch and nineteen Belgian missionaries killed during the Kongolo Massacre.
See also
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Railway stations in DRCongo
Railway stations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) include:
Maps
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Stations served by passenger trains
Stations served by rail
Existing
Matadi–Kinshasa Railway
* Ango-Ango
* Matadi
* Mpozo
...
References
Lualaba River
Populated places in Tanganyika Province
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