Zaire Province

Zaire

Nzadi
Zaire Nzadi
Province
	Zaire, province of Angola
Country	Angola
Capital	M'Banza Kongo
Government
• Governor	Pedro Makita Armando Júlia
• Vice-Governor for the Political, Economic and Social Sector	António Félix Kialunguila
• Vice-Governor for Technical Services and Infrastructures	Ângela Maria Botelho de Carvalho Diogo
Area
• Total	40,130 km2 (15,490 sq mi)
Population (2014 census)
• Total	594,428
• Density	15/km2 (40/sq mi)
ISO 3166 code	AO-ZAI
HDI (2018)	0.601; medium · 3rd
Website	www.zaire.gov.ao

Zaire (Portuguese: Zaire, French: Zaïre, Kongo: Nzadi^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]) is one of the 18 provinces of Angola. It occupies 40,130 square kilometres (15,490 sq mi) in the north west of the country and had a population of 594,428 inhabitants in 2014.^[1] It is bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the north by the Democratic Republic of Congo, on the east by the Uíge Province, and on the south by the Bengo Province.^[7]

^ ^a ^b "Resultados Definitivos Recenseamento Geral da População e Habitação - 2014" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estatística, República de Angola. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 December 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
^ Peter Forbath, The River Congo, Harper & Row, Publishers; First American Edition, 1977, p.19
^ René Lemarchand, Political Awakening in the Belgian Congo, 1988, University of California Press, p. 25.
^ Ghislain C. Kabwit, Zaïre: the Roots of the Continuing Crisis, Cambridge University Press, 1979
^ Jean-Jacques Arthur Malu-Malu, Le Congo Kinshasa, KARTHALA Editions, 2014, p. 171.
^ "Province/Zaire". Welcome to Angola.