Back Provinsies van die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo Afrikaans قائمة مقاطعات جمهورية الكونغو الديمقراطية Arabic গণতান্ত্রিক কঙ্গো প্রজাতন্ত্রের প্রদেশ Bengali/Bangla Províncies de la República Democràtica del Congo Catalan Provinzen der Demokratischen Republik Kongo German Provincoj de la Demokratia Respubliko Kongo Esperanto Provincias de la República Democrática del Congo Spanish Provints (Kongo DV) Estonian استانهای جمهوری دموکراتیک کنگو Persian Kongon demokraattisen tasavallan maakunnat Finnish
| Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Provinces de la République démocratique du Congo (French) | |
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| Category | 1st-level administrative division of a unitary state |
| Location | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Number | 26 provinces (1 is a city-province) |
| Populations | 1,250,000 (Bas-Uele) – 13,916,000 (Kinshasa) |
| Areas | 9,545 km2 (3,685 sq mi) (Kasaï-Oriental) – 199,567 km2 (77,053 sq mi) (Tshopo) |
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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.[1] Therefore, in many contexts Kinshasa is regarded as the 26th province.
- ^ "Constitution de la Republique Democratique du Congo" [The Constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo] (PDF). LEGANET.CD (in French). 20 January 2011. Article 2. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 February 2019. Retrieved 11 Jan 2020.
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