Kwango District

Kwango District is a district located in the Bandundu province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It takes its name from the Kwango River, a tributary of the Kasai River that defines the international boundary between the DRC and Angola.

Under the constitution of 18 February 2006, Kwango District was scheduled to become Kwango Province, one of the 25 new provinces into which the DRC would be divided. Kwango became a full province with its capital of Kenge on July 18, 2015.

Towns/Territories

The capital of Kwango district is Kenge. Other towns include Popokabaka, Feshi, Kasango-Lunda, Lusanga and Kahemba. The district is in the southwest of the DRC, bordering Angola to the south. Territories are:

Feshi

Kahemba

Kasango-Lunda

Kenge

Popokabaka

Former province

Kwango existed as a separate province from 1962 to 1966, prior the creation of Bandundu from the post-colonial political regions of Kwango, Kwilu District, and Mai-Ndombe District. Presidents (from 1965, governors)

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Kwango Province (proposed)

Coordinates: 04°51′S 016°59′E / 4.850°S 16.983°E / -4.850; 16.983

Kwango is one of 25 proposed provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo specified in the country's 2005 Constitution (effective 18 February 2006), under Article 2. It was to be created from country's the existing 10 provinces within 36 months (18 February 2009), according to Article 226. As of October 2010, this had not taken place.

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.