Kasai
Kasai-Central
Kananga City

Kananga

Kananga is a city in the of the . Once destined to become the new capital, this city of about 1.2 million people is now off the radar for most travelers to Congo.
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  • Type: City with 1,250,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of the Kasai-Central Province in DRC and capital of the former Kasaï-Occidental Province
  • Historically known as: “Lulua”, “Luluabourg”, and “Luluaburg”

Kananga

Latitude
-5.8952° or 5° 53′ 43″ south
Longitude
22.4086° or 22° 24′ 31″ east
Population
1,250,000
Elevation
643 metres (2,110 feet)
IATA airport code
KGA
United Nations Location Code
CD KGA
Open location code
6G644C35+WC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 435579903
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
214481
Wiki­data ID
Q205327
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kananga” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kananga”
  • Arabic: “كانانغا”
  • Armenian: “Կանանգա”
  • Asturian: “Kananga”
  • Basque: “Kananga”
  • Belarusian: “Кананга”
  • Bengali: “কানাঙ্গা”
  • Bulgarian: “Кананга”
  • Catalan: “Kananga”
  • Cebuano: “Kananga”
  • Chechen: “Кананга (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Кананга”
  • Chinese: “卡南加”
  • Croatian: “Kananga”
  • Czech: “Kananga”
  • Czech: “Luluabourg”
  • Czech: “Luluaburg”
  • Czech: “Luluagare”
  • Danish: “Kananga”
  • Dutch: “Kananga”
  • Dutch: “Luluaburg”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كانانجا”
  • Esperanto: “Kananga”
  • Estonian: “Kananga”
  • Ewe: “Kananga”
  • Finnish: “Kananga”
  • French: “Kananga”
  • French: “Luluabourg”
  • Georgian: “კანანგა”
  • German: “Kananga”
  • Greek: “Κανανγκά”
  • Gujarati: “કાનંગા”
  • Hausa: “Kananga”
  • Hebrew: “קאנאגה”
  • Hebrew: “קנאנגה”
  • Hindi: “म्वेने-डितू”
  • Hungarian: “Kananga”
  • Indonesian: “Kananga”
  • Irish: “Kananga”
  • Italian: “Kananga”
  • Japanese: “カナンガ”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಂಗಂಗಾ”
  • Kirghiz: “Кананга”
  • Kongo: “Kananga”
  • Kongo: “Luluabourg”
  • Korean: “카낭가”
  • Latvian: “Kananga”
  • Lingala: “Kananga”
  • Lingala: “Luluabourg”
  • Lithuanian: “Kananga”
  • Luba-Lulua: “Kananga”
  • Luba-Lulua: “Luluabourg”
  • Malay: “Kananga”
  • Marathi: “कानंगा”
  • Mingrelian: “კანანგა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kananga”
  • Norwegian: “Kananga”
  • Persian: “کانانگا”
  • Polish: “Kananga”
  • Portuguese: “Kananga”
  • Romanian: “Kananga”
  • Russian: “Кананга”
  • Serbian: “Кананга”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kananga”
  • Shona: “Kananga”
  • Silesian: “Kananga”
  • Sinhala: “Kananga”
  • Sinhala: “කනගා”
  • Slovak: “Kananga”
  • Slovenian: “Kananga”
  • Slovenian: “Luluabourg”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کانانقا”
  • Spanish: “Kananga”
  • Swahili: “Kananga”
  • Swahili: “Luluabourg”
  • Swedish: “Kananga”
  • Swedish: “Kanange”
  • Tagalog: “Kananga”
  • Tamil: “கணங்கா”
  • Telugu: “కనంగా”
  • Thai: “คานุงกู”
  • Turkish: “Kananga”
  • Ukrainian: “Kananga”
  • Ukrainian: “Кананга”
  • Urdu: “کانانگا”
  • Uzbek: “Kananga”
  • Venetian: “Kananga”
  • Vietnamese: “Kananga”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kananga”
  • Zulu: “Kananga, Khongo-Kinshasa”
  • Zulu: “Kananga”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kananga”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.