Bas-Congo District
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Coordinates: 5°49′00″S 13°29′00″E / 5.816667°S 13.483333°E | |
Country | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
District | Bas-Congo |
Bas-Congo (French: District du Bas-Congo, Dutch: District Beneden-Congo) was a district of the Belgian Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It went through various significant changes in extent. It roughly corresponds to the present province of Kongo Central.
Location
A map of the Congo Free State in 1897 shows four small districts along the lower reaches of the
Bas-Congo contained the port of Boma, the main port of entry to the Belgian Congo. The district was bounded to the south by Portuguese possessions, now Angola, and to the north by a Portuguese enclave of Cabinda and then by the French Congo, now the Republic of the Congo.[1]
Bas-Congo District is shown on maps of 1910, 1912 and 1926 with somewhat different boundaries on each map. In the 1910 and 1912 maps it is bounded by the
With the 1933 reorganization Bas-Congo had been extended again to include a section of Lac Léopold II District along the Congo. Bas-Congo, Léopoldville, Kwango and Lac Léopold II were now included in the
Post-independence
On 14 August 1962 the province of Congo Central was formed from part of
Maps
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1910 districts
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1926 provinces and districts
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1933 provinces and districts
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The present Kongo Central province
See also
References
- ^ a b Omasombo Tshonda 2015, p. 16.
- ^ Lemarchand 1964, p. 62.
- ^ a b c Atlas général du Congo.
- ^ Lemarchand 1964, p. 64.
- ^ Brass 2015, p. 243.
- ^ Brass 2015, p. 254.
- ^ Congo (Kinshasa) Provinces.
Sources
- Atlas général du Congo / Algemene atlas van Congo (in French and Dutch), Belgium: Institut Royal Colonial Belge, 1948–1963, OCLC 681334449
- Brass, William (8 December 2015), Demography of Tropical Africa, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-1-4008-7714-0, retrieved 20 August 2020
- "Congo (Kinshasa) Provinces", Rulers.org, retrieved 2020-08-05
- Lemarchand, René (1964), Political Awakening in the Belgian Congo, University of California Press, GGKEY:TQ2J84FWCXN, retrieved 19 August 2020
- Omasombo Tshonda, Jean (2015), Mongala : Jonction des territoires et bastion d'une identité supra-ethnique (PDF), Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale, ISBN 978-9-4922-4416-1, retrieved 2020-08-18