Katanga may refer to:

Political entities

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 ...

, a former province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo *

State of Katanga The State of Katanga; sw, Inchi Ya Katanga) also sometimes denoted as the Republic of Katanga, was a breakaway state that proclaimed its independence from Congo-Léopoldville on 11 July 1960 under Moise Tshombe, leader of the local ''Co ...

, a breakaway state which existed from 1960 to 1963 ** Katanga Crisis or "Congo Crisis", a period of turmoil in the First Republic of the Congo from 1960 to 1965 * Haut-Katanga Province, a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, created in 2015 *

Katanga insurgency The Katanga insurgency is an ongoing rebellion by a number of rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, some of which aim for the creation of a separate state within Katanga. While the insurgency has been active in various forms since ...

, an ongoing rebellion by a number of rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo * Katanga Slum, a settlement in central Uganda *

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 ...

, details of the region from early times, under Luba kingdom, Belgian rule, independent Congo

Places

* Katanga, Dominican Republic, a section of

Los Mina Los Mina (in full: San Lorenzo de Los Mina) is a eector in the city of Santo Domingo Este in the province of Santo Domingo of the Dominican Republic. Los Mina was part of Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional. Santo Domingo Este was created as municip ...

, founded by maroons from the Congo who fled French rule * Katanga Plateau, a plateau in the Democratic Republic of the Congo *

Garenganze The Yeke Kingdom (also called the ''Garanganze'' or ''Garenganze'' kingdom) of the Garanganze people in Katanga, DR Congo, was short-lived, existing from about 1856 to 1891 under one king, Msiri, but it became for a while the most powerful sta ...

or ''Katanga'' in Central Africa, the home of the pre-colonial Yeke Kingdom of Msiri * Katanga River, a river in Russia

People

* Germain Katanga (born 1978), a Congolese militia leader accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court *

Simon Katanga This is a list of characters in the Indiana Jones (franchise), ''Indiana Jones'' series. Introduced in ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' Indiana Jones Indiana Jones (character), Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr. (Harrison Ford), the titular chara ...

, a fictional character in the film ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''

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1817 Katanga 1817 Katanga, provisional designation , is a stony Phocaea asteroid in from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 16 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 20 June 1939, by English-born South African astronomer Cyril Jackson ...

, a main-belt asteroid *

Luba-Katanga language Luba-Katanga, also known as Luba-Shaba and ''Kiluba'' ( lu, Kiluba), is a Bantu language ( Zone L) of Central Africa. It is spoken mostly in the south-east area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by the Luba people. Kiluba is spoken in the ...

, a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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