Congo Central

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Congo Central
Central Congo
Bas-Uele Équateur Haut-Katanga Haut-Lomami Haut-Uele Ituri Kasaï Kasaï-Central Kasaï-Oriental Kinshasa Kongo Central Kwango Kwilu Lomami Lualaba Mai-Ndombe Maniema Mongala Nord-Kivu Nord-Ubangi Sankuru Sud-Kivu Sud-Ubangi Tanganyika Tshopo Tshuapamap
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country Congo Democratic RepublicDemocratic Republic of Congo Democratic Republic of Congo
Provincial capital Matadi
governor Simon Mbatshi Batshia
National language Kikongo
surface 53,920 km²
population 5,575,000 (2015)
Population density 103.4 inhabitants / km²
ISO 3166-2 CD-BC
Landscape in Congo Central

Kongo Central ( German  Central Congo ) is a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the capital Matadi . It is the only province in the country that lies on the Atlantic .

geography

The province is located in the west of the country and borders in the north-west on the Angolan exclave Cabinda , in the north on the Republic of the Congo , in the east on the provinces of Kinshasa and Kwango , in the south on Angola and in the south-west on the Atlantic Ocean.

In addition to the provincial capital Matadi, Boma also has official city status.

population

According to a calculation from 2015, Congo Central has 5,575,000 inhabitants. Population growth is currently over 3% per year.

Population development:

year

Residents
1984 (census) 1,972,000
1994 (estimate) 2,835,000
2010 (calculation) 4,522,942
2015 (calculation) 5,575,000

history

The province was in 1960 as Congo-Central (central Congo) created and in 1971 in Bas-Zaire (Niederzaire) renamed. With the end of the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997 , the term Zaïre became Congo again , so that the province (as well as the republic) was renamed and was now called Bas-Congo .

With the adoption of a new constitution in May 2005 , it was decided to reorganize the area of ​​the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the course of this administrative reform it was also planned to rename the Bas-Congo Province to Congo Central ( Central Congo ), whereby the area size of the province should remain unchanged. This reform, which was supposed to contribute to the decentralization of the country, was postponed several times and finally in January 2011 practically canceled by a controversial constitutional amendment by President Joseph Kabila . In 2015, the administrative reform was finally implemented, which resulted in the province being renamed Congo Central .

During the First Congo War , the provincial capital Matadi was captured by the rebels on May 22, 1997.

administration

Administrative division

After the province of Léopoldstadt was divided into the provinces of Central Congo (today Lower Congo ) and Bandundu, Lower Congo consisted of two districts (or sub-regions at the time of Zaïres):

  • District waterfalls (District des Cataractes) , capital Thysville , later renamed Mbanza-Ngungu
  • District of Lower Congo (District du Bas-Congo) , capital of Boma

A third district was added later in Niederzaïre:

  • Lukaya district, main town: Inkisi

After the transition from Zaïre to the Congo and the change of the name of the province to Lower Congo, the district of the same name was renamed Unterlauf (District du Bas-Fleuve) . After Boma became a city, Nsiamfumu temporarily became the capital; today it is Thsela .

List of governors

The names are listed in the order first name (prénom) , family name (nom de famille) , last name (postnom) , although in the period before Mobutu the surname was often missing and the first names were abolished during the reign of Mobutu.

  1. Faustin Vital Moanda † 1962–1966
  2. Denis Paluku 1966-1967
  3. François Luakabuanga 1967–1968
  4. Bruno Ndala † 1968–1969
  5. Anaclet Aniki Tshambuyi 1969-1970
  6. Marcel Derikoye Tita 1970–1972
  7. Dieudonné Boji Ntole 1972
  8. Cathérine Nzuji wa Mbombo 1972-1975
  9. Loposo Nzela Balombee 1975-1976
  10. Efambee Y'Olenga 1976-1977
  11. Ilunga Mubabinge 1977-1988
  12. Tshiamala Tshingombe 1978-1980
  13. Makolo Jibikilayi 1980
  14. Alphonse Zamundu 1980-1981
  15. Malumba Mbangula 1981-1983
  16. Makolo Jibikilay 1983-1986
  17. Muana Tshiala 1986-1988
  18. Kakule Mbayingana 1988-1989
  19. Mpa Mbia Musanga Bekaja 1989–1990
  20. Timothée Moleka Nzulama 1990-1991
  21. Me Bieya Mbaki 1991-1997
  22. M'Vuma Ngeti 1997 (governor ad interim)
  23. Joseph Mbenza Thubi 1997 (4 days)
  24. Vice Amiral Liwanga 1997 (1 month)
  25. Léonard Fuka Unzola 1997-1998
  26. Dr. Séraphin ba Vuidi Babingi 1998-2001
  27. César Tsasa du Ntumba 2002 – Oct. 2006
  28. Jacques Mbadu Nsitu Oct. 10, 2006-18. Feb 2006
  29. Simon Mbatshi ba Tshia since Feb. 18, 2006

Web links

Commons : Congo Central  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Congo (Dem. Rep.): Provinces & Cities - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information. Retrieved April 6, 2018 .
  2. ↑ World Gazetteer: Page no longer available , search in web archives: Congo (Dem. Rep.): Administrative structure (population and area)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bevoelkerungsstatistik.de
  3. ^ Constitution of 2005, Art. 2.
  4. ↑ Dominic Johnson : taz.de: Kabila secures the next election victory called on January 17, 2011
  5. ↑ - ( Memento of January 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the provincial government
  6. ^ Source of the list 1962-2006: Website of the provincial government: http://www.bas-congo.cd/liste_gouverneurs.htm ( Memento from March 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )