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The national language spoken in the province is Kikongo and the predominant ethnic group in the region is Bakongo. [7] According to preliminary data from the General Census of Population and Housing conducted in May 2014, Zaire Province has currently 567,225 inhabitants, corresponding to 2.3 percent of the Angolan population.
Zaire, [c] officially the Republic of Zaire, [d] was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1971 to 18 May 1997. Located in Central Africa , it was, by area, the third-largest country in Africa after Sudan and Algeria , and the 11th-largest country in the world from 1965 to 1997.
The Belgian Congo became an independent country in 1960, named Republic of the Congo. Under the first constitution, the Loi Fondamentale, six provinces were provided for: Equateur, Kasai, Katanga, Kivu, Leopoldville, and Orientale. [4] The provinces were organized with their own elected assemblies and parliamentary governments responsible to ...
N'Zeto is a town, with a population of 28,840 (2014 census), [2] and a municipality located in the province of Zaire in Angola. During the Portuguese domain the town was called Ambrizete. The municipality has an estimated population of 56,199 (2019). It is served by N'zeto Airport
It was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami, Lualaba, and Haut-Katanga provinces. Between 1971 and 1997 (during the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko when Congo was known as Zaire), its official name was Shaba Province. [1]
The Belgian Congo (French: Congo belge, pronounced [kɔ̃ɡo bɛlʒ]; Dutch: Belgisch-Congo) [a] was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960 and became the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville). The former colony adopted its present name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in 1964.
Following expansion, Uganda became an independent province, leaving the rest of the region as the 'Province of Rwanda, Burundi, and Zaire'. [2] In 1992 the three countries of the united Province each gained independence under their own individual Metropolitan Archbishop, and the Church of the Province of Zaire came into existence.
People from Zaire Province (1 C, 5 P) Populated places in Zaire Province (1 C, 25 P) Pages in category "Zaire Province" This category contains only the following page.