Kwango is one of 25 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo specified in the country's 2005 Constitution (effective 18 February 2006), under Article 2.[1] It was to be created from country's the existing 10 provinces within 36 months (18 February 2009), according to Article 226.[2] As of October 2010, this had not taken place.[3]
It is one of three provinces which was to have been restored from Bandundu province. Kwango existed from 1962 to 1966, prior the creation of Bandundu from the post-colonial political regions of Kwango, Kwilu, and Mai-Ndombe.
The capital of Kwango province is Kenge.[4]
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