Katanga
Katanga was one of the four large provinces created in the Belgian Congo in 1914. 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.
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Katanga
- Type: Locality
- Description: former province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Also known as: “CD-KA”, “Elizabetvilio provincija”, “Katanga ka mikuba”, “Katanga Province”, “Katangais”, “Katangos provincija”, “Šabos provincija”, “Shaba”, “Shaba Province”, “Shaba provints”, “Shabien”, “Tỉnh Katanga”, “Провинция Катанга”, “محافظة كاتانغا”, “कटंगा प्रांत”, “కటాంగా రాష్ట్రభాగం”, “샤바”, “샤바 주”, “카탕가”, “シャバ州”, “加丹加”, and “沙巴省”
- Historically known as: “Micheron”, “Micherou”, and “Mischiru”
- Categories: historical region and former administrative territorial entity
- Location: Kambove Ville, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
-11.1253° or 11° 7′ 31″ south
Longitude of center
27.1015° or 27° 6′ 5″ east
Elevation
1,167 metres (3,829 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Katanga” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محافظة كاتنغا”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة كاتانغا”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة كتانغا”
- Armenian: “Կատանգա”
- Asturian: “Katanga”
- Basque: “Katanga”
- Belarusian: “Катанга”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Катанга”
- Bengali: “কাটাঙ্গা প্রদেশ”
- Breton: “Katanga”
- Bulgarian: “Катанга”
- Catalan: “Katanga”
- Cebuano: “Katanga Province”
- Chinese: “加丹加省”
- Chinese: “卡坦加”
- Croatian: “Katanga”
- Czech: “Katanga”
- Danish: “Katanga”
- Dutch: “Katanga”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاتانجا”
- Esperanto: “Katango”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Katanga”
- Estonian: “Katanga provints”
- Finnish: “Katanga”
- French: “Katanga”
- Galician: “Katanga”
- German: “Katanga”
- Greek: “Κατάνγκα”
- Gujarati: “કાટંગા પ્રાંત”
- Hausa: “Lardin Katanga”
- Hebrew: “קטנגה”
- Hindi: “काटंगा प्रदेश”
- Hindi: “कातांगा प्रान्त”
- Hungarian: “Katanga tartomány”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Katanga”
- Interlingua: “Provincia Katanga”
- Italian: “Provincia del Katanga”
- Italian: “provincia di Katanga”
- Japanese: “カタンガ州”
- Kannada: “ಕಟಂಗ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Kikuyu: “Katanga”
- Korean: “카탕가 주”
- Korean: “카탕가주”
- Latin: “Catanga”
- Latin: “Katanga”
- Latvian: “Katangas province”
- Lingala: “Katanga”
- Lithuanian: “Katanga”
- Luxembourgish: “Katanga”
- Macedonian: “Катанга”
- Malagasy: “Katanga”
- Malay: “Katanga Province”
- Marathi: “काटंगा प्रांत”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Katanga”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Katanga-provinsen”
- Norwegian: “Katanga”
- Persian: “استان کاتانگا”
- Polish: “Katanga”
- Portuguese: “Catanga”
- Russian: “Катанга”
- Scots: “Katanga Province”
- Serbian: “Катанга”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Katanga”
- Sinhala: “කටන්ගා පළාත”
- Slovak: “Katanga”
- Slovenian: “Katanga”
- Spanish: “Katanga”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Katanga”
- Swahili: “Katanga”
- Swedish: “Katanga”
- Tamil: “கடங்கா மாகாணம்”
- Telugu: “కటాంగా ప్రావిన్స్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดคาตันกา”
- Turkish: “Katanga”
- Ukrainian: “Катанга”
- Urdu: “کاتانگا صوبہ”
- Venetian: “Catanga”
- Vietnamese: “Katanga”
- Waray (Philippines): “Katanga (lalawigan)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Katanga”
- Welsh: “Rhanbarth Katanga”
- Wu Chinese: “加丹加省”
- Yue Chinese: “卡坦加省”
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