Mongala

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Mongala
Bas-Uele Équateur Haut-Katanga Haut-Lomami Haut-Uele Ituri Kasaï Kasaï-Central Kasaï-Oriental Kinshasa Kongo Central Kwango Kwilu Lomami Lualaba Mai-Ndombe Maniema Mongala Nord-Kivu Nord-Ubangi Sankuru Sud-Kivu Sud-Ubangi Tanganyika Tshopo Tshuapamap
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country Congo Democratic RepublicDemocratic Republic of Congo Democratic Republic of Congo
Provincial capital Lisala
National language Lingála
surface 58,141 km²
population 1,740,000 (2015)
Population density 29.9
ISO 3166-2 CD-MO

Mongala is a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo . The capital of Mongalas is Lisala with 79,235 inhabitants (2010), but the city of Bumba is the largest city in the province with 103,328 inhabitants. The population of the entire provincial area was 1,740,000 in 2015.

geography

Mongala is located in the north-west of the country and borders in the north with north Ubangi , in the north-east with Bas-Uele , in the south-east with Tshopo , in the south with Tshuapa , in the south-west with Équateur and in the north-west with Sud-Ubangi .

Districts

The province is divided into three districts, all of which are named after their respective main towns:

  • Bongandanga
  • Bumba
  • Lisala

history

Mongala was a district of the Equateur Province . According to the administrative reform announced in 2005 and canceled in 2011, Equateur was to be divided into five new provinces, including Mongala. The administrative reform was postponed several times and canceled in 2011, but finally implemented in 2015 and thus made Mongala a province.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the largest towns in the DR Congo . World Gazetteer. Retrieved August 22, 2010.
  2. ^ Congo (Dem. Rep.): Provinces & Cities - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information. Retrieved April 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ http://www.ucdp-info.com/presses_secu_al.htm