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Katanga (former administrative division) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 09 00 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -9.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 026 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 26.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Came under Belgian colonial governance in 1885; seceded from the recently independent Congo in July 1960 with support from Belgium; political disorder followed & the movement was suppressed in 1963 with intervention from the United Nations. Dissolved in 2015-2016. |
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| Katanga (preferred,C,V,English-P)
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............ | until January 1972, reestablished in 1998 |
| Katanga, Province du (C,V)
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| Province de Katanga (C,V,display)
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| קטאנגה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Province du Katanga (C,U,O)
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| Région du Shaba (C,U)
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| Katanga Province (C,U,English)
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| Elisabethville (H,V)
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| Sha'ba (H,V)
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| Shaba (H,V)
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| Shaba, Région du (H,V)
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Katanga (former administrative division) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| former administrative division (preferred, C) |
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| province (H) |
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| first level subdivision (H) |
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| region (geographic) (C) |
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