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 ...
created in the
2015 repartitioning. Haut-Lomami,
Haut-Katanga,
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, Haut-Lomami, Lualaba, ...
. 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 cu ...
whose town of
Kamina was elevated to capital city of the new province.
Territories
*
Bukama
*
Kabongo
*
Kamina
*
Kaniama
*
Malemba-Nkulu
See also
*
History of Katanga
References
Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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