Lualaba (province)

Lualaba
country	Democratic Republic of Congo
Provincial capital	Kolwezi
National language	Kiswahili
surface	121,308 km²
population	2,570,000 (2015)
Population density	21.2
ISO 3166-2	CD-LU

Lualaba is a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo . The capital of Lualaba is the city ​​of Kolwezi , the population of the entire area was 2,570,000 in 2015.

The Lualaba River , after which the province is named

geography

Lualaba is located in the south of the country and borders in the north on Kasaï-Central and Lomami , in the northeast on Haut-Lomami , in the east on Haut-Katanga , in the southeast on Zambia and in the southwest and west on Angola . A border town to Angola is Dilolo .

Districts

• Kolwezi (district-free city)
• Dilolo
• Kapanga
• Lubudi
• Mutshatsha
• Sandoa

history

After the independence of the DR Congo in 1960, the area of ​​today's province of Lualaba belonged to the secession state Katanga , which was reintegrated into the motherland in 1963 and formed the province of Katanga . According to the administrative reallocation of the country, which was provided for in the constitution of 2005, the province of Katanga was to be divided up and the district of Lualaba and three other districts of Katangas were to receive provincial status and, as one of 26 provinces, to have an independent administration and a regional parliament. In January 2011, this reform was practically canceled by a controversial constitutional amendment by President Joseph Kabila. In the end, it was implemented in 2015 and Lualaba was thus raised to a province.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.ucdp-info.com/presses_secu_al.htm