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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.
Governors of provinces of the Belgian Congo (6 C, 29 P) D. Districts of the Belgian Congo (3 C, 40 P) E. Équateur (former province) (5 C, 2 P)
The Belgian Congo became an independent country in 1960, named Republic of the Congo. By 1963, the country was organised into 21 provinces (informally called provincettes) plus the capital city of Léopoldville, similar to the original 22 districts under colonial rule. In 1966, the 21 provincettes were grouped into eight provinces, and the ...
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The Districts of the Belgian Congo were the primary administrative divisions when Belgium annexed the Congo Free State in 1908, each administered by a district commissioner. In 1914 they were distributed among four large provinces, with some boundary changes. In 1933 the provinces were restructured into six, again with boundary changes.
Former colonies in Africa. Political history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Belgian colonisation in Africa. Belgium–Democratic Republic of the Congo relations. History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by period. Commons category link is on Wikidata. Wikipedia categories named after colonies.
Belgian Congo provinces in 1920 Belgian Congo provinces in 1933 after the District of Lomami was transferred to the new Kasaï Province Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2015. This list of governors of Katanga includes governors or equivalent officeholders of the Katanga Province established in the Belgian Congo in 1910, and of ...
Belgian Congo provinces in 1933 after Léopoldville and Lusambo (Kasaï) had been separated Bandundu Province after the western provinces of Kinshasa and Bas-Congo were split out. This List of governors of Léopoldville / Bandundu includes governors of the Léopoldville Province of the Belgian Congo and its successor Republic of the Congo ...