Kwango District

Kwango District
Kwango District
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Country Democratic Republic of Congo
Province Bandundu

Kwango District is a district located in the Bandundu province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It contains the Kasongo-Lunda, Kahemba, Feshi, Popokabaka and Kenge territories. The main town is Kenge. Other towns include Popokabaka, Feshi, Kasongo-Lunda and Kahemba. The district is in the southwest of the DRC, bordering Angola to the south.[1]

Under the constitution of 18 February 2006, Kwango District was scheduled to become Kwango Province, one of the 25 new provinces into which the DRC would be divided. As of January 2011 this decentralization had not happened.[2]

Heads of the provincial government from 1962-1966

Presidents (from 1965, governors)

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