Equateur (1917-2015)
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Equateur equator |
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| country |
 Democratic Republic of Congo
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| Provincial capital | Mbandaka |
| governor | Yves Mobando Yogo |
| National language | Lingála |
| surface | 403,292 km² |
| population | 7,501,902 (2010) |
| Population density | 18.6 / km² |
| ISO 3166-2 | CD EQ |
Equateur ( German equator ) was a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the capital Mbandaka .
geography
The province was located in the northwest of the country and bordered in the north by the Central African Republic , in the east by the Orientale Province , in the southeast by the provinces of Kasaï-Oriental and Kasai-Occidental , in the southwest by the Province of Bandundu and in the west by the Republic of the Congo . Equateur comprised part of the central Congo Basin and its edges. The Ubangi flows into the Congo south of the capital Mbandaka .
population
The basin is inhabited by the Mongo and Ngombe .
history
The province was created during the Belgian colonial era. From 1933 to 1947 it was called Coquilhatville (French) or Coquilhatstad (Dutch) (today Mbandaka) after its capital . In 1962 , Équateur was dissolved and divided into the provinces of Cuvette-Centrale (central cuvette) , Moyen-Congo (central Congo) and Ubangi . Four years later ( 1966 ) the province was restored.
Dissolution in 2015
With the adoption of a new constitution in May 2005, the Congo was to be reorganized. After the date of the administrative change had previously been postponed several times, the then President Joseph Kabila made this completely reversed in January 2011. However, the administrative change was implemented in 2015 and the province of Equateur was divided into five new provinces:
- Equateur with the capital Mbandaka
- Mongala with the capital Lisala
- Northern Ubangi with the capital Gbadolite
- Sud-Ubangi with the capital Gemena
- Tshuapa with the capital Boende