Lomami (Province)

Lomami
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.