Lomami (Province)
Lomami | |
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country | Democratic Republic of Congo |
Provincial capital | Kabinda |
National language | Tschiluba |
surface | 56,426 km² |
population | 2,443,000 (2015) |
Population density | 43.3 |
ISO 3166-2 | CD-LO |
Lomami is a province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . The capital of Lomami is the city of Kabinda .
geography
Lomami is located in the southern center of the country and is crossed by the Lomami River. It is bordered to the north by Sankuru , to the northeast by Maniema , to the northeast by Tanganyika , to the southeast by Haut-Lomami , to the southwest by Lualaba and to the west by Kasaï-Central and Kasaï-Oriental .
history
The area of the province of Lomami belonged as "District Kabinda" after independence in 1960 to the province of Kasaï and from 1988 to the newly formed province of Kasaï-Oriental . An administrative reform passed in 2005 provided for the Kabindas area to be given provincial status under the name Lomami . This territorial reform was first postponed and canceled in January 2011 by a constitutional amendment by President Joseph Kabila . However, the reorganization was implemented in 2015 and Lomami was granted province status.