Kasaï-Occidental
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Kasaï-Occidental West Kasai |
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| country |
 Democratic Republic of Congo
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| Provincial capital | Kananga |
| governor | Claudel Lubaya |
| National language | Tchiluba |
| surface | 154,742 km² |
| population | 3,337,000 (1998) |
| Population density | 21.6 |
| ISO 3166-2 | CD-KW |
Kasaï-Occidental ( German West Kasai ) was a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the capital Kananga .
geography
The province was located in the south of the country and bordered on the north with the province of Equateur , in the east with the province of Kasaï-Oriental , in the southeast with the province Katanga , in the southwest with Angola and in the west with the province Bandundu .
history
The province was created in 1966 by merging the provinces of Lulabourg , Unité-Kasaienne and parts of the Sankuru province .
division
With the adoption of a new constitution in May 2005 , the Congo was to be restructured. 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 the province of Kasaï-Occidental was divided into two new provinces:
- Kasaï with the capital Luebo
- Kasaï-Central with the capital Kananga