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The following lists events that happened during 1966 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo .
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The following lists events that happened during 1966 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo .
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| (over the whole year) | Géomines produces 2,818 tonnes of cassiterite. [1] |
| 25 April | Cuvette Centrale, Ubangi, and Moyen-Congo are reunited as Équateur Province. [2] |
| 30 May | Archdiocese of Léopoldville renamed the Archdiocese of Kinshasa |
| 26 October | Post of prime minister is abolished |
| 28 December | Kivu Province is recreated from the provinces of Maniema, North Kivu and South Kivu. [2] |
| 28 December | Orientale Province is formally reconstituted from the amalgamation of Kibali-Ituri, Uélé and Haut-Congo provinces. [2] |
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. Between 1971 and 1997, its official name was Shaba Province.
ISO 3166-2:CD is the entry for the Democratic Republic of the Congo in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
Tanganyika is one of the 21 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Tanganyika, Haut-Katanga, Haut-Lomami and Lualaba provinces are the result of the splitting up of the former Katanga province. Tanganyika was formed from the Tanganyika district whose town of Kalemie was elevated to capital city of the new province.
Article 2 of the Constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo divides the country into the capital city of Kinshasa and 25 named provinces. It also gives the capital the status of a province. Therefore, in many contexts Kinshasa is regarded as the 26th province.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Democratic Republic of the Congo:
The provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo were divided into 26 districts. Those in turn were divided into territories or communes.
Democratic Republic of the Congo–India relations are the international relations that exist between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and India.
Géomines was a Belgian mining company active in the Belgian Congo and then in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was established in 1910, and exploited a large deposit in the southeast of the country to become one of the largest tin producers in the world. It was taken over by Zairetain in 1968.
The following lists events that happened during 1964 in the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
The following lists events that happened during 1951 in the Belgian Congo.
The following lists events that happened during 1947 in the Belgian Congo.
The following lists events that happened during 1954 in the Belgian Congo.
The following lists events that happened during 1945 in the Belgian Congo.
The following lists events that happened during 1928 in the Belgian Congo.
The following lists events that happened during 1950 in the Belgian Congo.
The following lists events that happened during 1961 in the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
The following lists events that happened during 1962 in the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
The following lists events that happened during 1968 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The following lists events that happened during 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
