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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.
The use of Congo seems to have replaced Zaire gradually in English usage during the 18th century and Congo was the preferred English name in 19th-century literature, although references to Zahir or Zaire as the name used by the local population (i.e. derived from Portuguese usage) remained common. [8]
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.
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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).
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Mbanza Kongo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐ̃ˈbɐ̃zɐ], [ĩˈbɐ̃zɐ], [mɨˈβɐ̃zɐ] or [miˈβɐ̃zɐ ˈkõɡu], known as São Salvador in Portuguese from 1570 to 1976; Kongo: Mbânza Kôngo), is the capital of Angola's northwestern Zaire Province [2] [3] with a population of 148,000 in 2014. [4]
Soyo (formerly known as Santo António do Zaire) is a city, with a population of 200,920 (2014 census), [2] and a municipality, with a population of 227,175 (2014 census), located in the province of Zaire in Angola, at the mouth of the Congo River.