Tanganyika Province

Tanganyika

Province du Tanganyika (French)
Mkoa wa Ituri (Swahili)
Tanganyika Province du Tanganyika (French); Mkoa wa Ituri (Swahili)
Province
	Seal
	Tanganyika Province
	Interactive map of Tanganyika Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
	Coordinates: 6°41′S 28°04′E / 6.69°S 28.07°E
Country	DR Congo
Established	2015
Named for	Lake Tanganyika
Capital	Kalemie
Government
• Governor	Julie Ngungwa Mwayuma
Area
• Total	134,940 km2 (52,100 sq mi)
Population (2015)
• Total	3,062,000
• Density	23/km2 (59/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (CAT)
License Plate Code	CGO / 24
Official language	French
National language	Kiswahili
Website	tanganyika.gouv.cd

Tanganyika (Jimbo la Tanganyika, in Swahili) 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.^[1] Tanganyika was formed from the Tanganyika district whose town of Kalemie was elevated to capital city of the new province.

The new province's territory corresponds to the historic Nord-Katanga province that existed in the early period of post-colonial Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1962 and 1966.

^ "Le Katanga officiellement démembré en quatre nouvelles provinces". Radio Okapi (in French). 16 July 2015. Archived from the original on 19 July 2015. Retrieved 8 June 2020.

[1] "Le Katanga officiellement démembré en quatre nouvelles provinces". Radio Okapi (in French). 16 July 2015. Archived from the original on 19 July 2015. Retrieved 8 June 2020.

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