Bandundu (Province)
| Bandundu | |
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| country |
 Democratic Republic of Congo
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| Provincial capital | Bandundu |
| governor | Guy Kunza |
| National language | Kikongo , Lingala |
| surface | 295,658 km² |
| population | 5,201,000 (1998) |
| Population density | 17.6 |
| ISO 3166-2 | CD-BN |
Bandundu is a former province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the capital Bandundu .
geography
The province lay in the west of the country and bordered the province of Equateur in the north, Kasai-Occidental in the east, Angola in the south, the provinces of Bas-Congo and Kinshasa in the west and the Republic of the Congo in the northwest .
history
The province was created in 1966 by merging the provinces of Kwango , Kwilu and Mai-Ndombe .
Restructuring 2015
According to the new constitution passed in May 2005, the Congo should be reorganized. After the date of the administrative change had previously been postponed several times, President Joseph Kabila initially reversed it in January 2011. The reorganization of the Congo was finally implemented in July 2015. Bandundu was divided into three new provinces and finally implemented in mid-2015.
See also
Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Individual evidence
- ↑ radio okapi: démembrement effectif du Bandundu ( French ), accessed on January 28, 2017