Kasaï-Oriental (1966-2015)
| Kasaï-Oriental (1966-2015) | |
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| country |
 Democratic Republic of Congo
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| Provincial capital | Mbuji-Mayi |
| governor | Dominique Kanku |
| National language | Tschiluba |
| surface | 170,302 km² |
| population | 6,108,000 (calculation 2007) |
| ISO 3166-2 | CD-KE |
Kasaï-Oriental (German Ostkasai ) was a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with about 6,108,000 inhabitants. Their capital was Mbuji-Mayi .
geography
The province lay in the south of the country and bordered the provinces of Equateur and Orientale to the north, Maniema to the east, Katanga to the southeast and Kasai-Occidental to the west .
history
The province was created in 1966 by merging the provinces of Lomami, Sud-Kasaï (South Kasai) and parts of the Sankuru province.
Split 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, President Joseph Kabila reversed it completely in January 2011. However, the administrative change was implemented in 2015 and Kasaï-Oriental was divided into three new provinces:
- Kasaï-Oriental with the capital Mbuji-Mayi
- Lomami with the capital Kabinda
- Sankuru with the capital Lodja
See also
Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Individual evidence
- ↑ bevölkerungsstatistik.de (2007)