Skin katanga

Skin katanga
country	Democratic Republic of Congo
Provincial capital	Lubumbashi
National language	Swahili
surface	132,425 km²
population	4,617,000 (2015)
Population density	34.9
ISO 3166-2	CD-HK

Haut-Katanga (German also Ober-Katanga ) is a province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with more than 4.6 million inhabitants. The capital of Haut-Katanga is the metropolis of Lubumbashi .

geography

Haut-Katanga is located in the south-east of the country and borders on the Lualaba Province in the west, Haut-Lomami in the north-west and Tanganyika in the north-east . In the east and south lies the state of Zambia and on the eastern border of the province there is also Lake Mweru .

history

As early as 1913, uranium ore was discovered in Haut-Katanga in what was then the Belgian Congo . The ore was found in the Shinkolobwe Mine . After the independence of the DR Congo in 1960, the area of ​​today's Haut-Katanga province belonged to the secession state Katanga , which was reintegrated into the motherland in 1963 and formed the Katanga province . 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 and the district of Haut-Katanga and three other districts of Katanga were to receive provincial status. As one of 26 provinces, the area should have its own administration and its own regional parliament. In January 2011, however, this reform was practically canceled by a controversial constitutional amendment by President Joseph Kabila . In the end, it was implemented in 2015 and Haut-Katanga was raised to the status of province.

economy

The region is part of the so-called Copperbelt , the most important copper mining area in Africa.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Congo (Dem. Rep.): Provinces & Cities - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information. Retrieved April 6, 2018 .