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| 1 | Democratic Republic of the Congo ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 444 Lat/Lng : -2.3333 / 22.8 | The Democratic Republic of the Congo , also known as DR Congo, the DRC, Congo-Kinshasa, East Congo, or simply the Congo, is the southernmost country located in East Africa and Central Africa. It is sometimes referred to by its former name of Zaire, which was its official name between 1971 and 1997 (...) | |
| 2 | Kolwezi ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1496 Lat/Lng : -10.7167 / 25.4667 | Kolwezi or Kolwesi is the capital city of Lualaba Province in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, west of Likasi. It is home to an airport and a railway to Lubumbashi. The population is approximately 453,000. (...) | |
| 3 | Kananga ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 638 Lat/Lng : -5.897 / 22.4488 | Kananga, formerly known as Luluabourg or Luluaburg, is the capital city of the Lulua Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was the capital of the former Kasaï-Occidental Province. The city has an estimated population of 1,463,556.http://www.tiptopglobe (...) | |
| 4 | Kolwezi Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1521 Lat/Lng : -10.7659 / 25.5057 | Kolwezi Airport is an airport serving Kolwezi, the capital of Lualaba District in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The airport is south of Kolwezi. The Kolwezi non-directional beacon (Ident: KWZ) is located west of the airport. (...) | |
| 5 | Lualaba Province ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1496 Lat/Lng : -10.7167 / 25.4667 | Lualaba is one of the 26 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Specified under Article 2 of the country's 2006 Constitution, Lualaba Province was finally created in 2015 from Lualaba District, Kolwezi District and the independently administered city of Kolwezi, all previously part of (...) | |
| 6 | Katanga Province ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1172 Lat/Lng : -11.1411 / 27.1047 | Katanga was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami, Lualaba and Haut-Katanga provinces. Between 1971 and 1997 (during the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko when Congo was known as Zaïre), its official name (...) | |
| 7 | Lubumbashi ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1255 Lat/Lng : -11.6697 / 27.4833 | Lubumbashi (former names: (French) and Elisabethstad (Dutch)) in the southeastern part of Democratic Republic of the Congo is the second-largest city in the country, the largest being the capital, Kinshasa. Lubumbashi is the mining capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, acting as a hub (...) | |
| 8 | Shinkolobwe ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1410 Lat/Lng : -11.055 / 26.5473 | Shinkolobwe, or Kasolo, or Chinkolobew, or Shainkolobwe, is a radium and uranium mine in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), located 20 km west of Likasi, 20 km south of Kambove, and about 145 km northwest of Lubumbashi (...) | |
| 9 | Manika, Kolwezi ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1251 Lat/Lng : -11.0006 / 26.7571 | Manika is a commune of the city of Kolwezi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | |
| 10 | Copperbelt ![]() FeatureType : forest Elevation : 1255 Lat/Lng : -12.0 / 28.0 | The Copperbelt is a natural region in Central Africa which sits on the border region between northern Zambia and the southern Democratic Republic of Congo. It is known for copper mining. Traditionally, the term Copperbelt includes the mining regions of Zambia's Copperbelt Province (notably the towns (...) | |
| 11 | Copper mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1103 Lat/Lng : -8.8833 / 28.2667 | Copper mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo mainly takes place in the Copper Belt of the southern Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (...) | |
| 12 | French Foreign Legion ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 110 Lat/Lng : 43.2925 / 5.5534 | The French Foreign Legion (FFL; , L.É.) is a military service branch of the French Army established in 1831. Legionnaires are highly trained infantry soldiers and the Legion is unique in that it was, and continues to be, open to foreign recruits willing to serve in the French Armed Forces (...) | |
| 13 | Canada–Democratic Republic of the Congo relations ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 59 Lat/Lng : 45.4274 / -75.6737 | Canada–Democratic Republic of the Congo relations refers to the bilateral relationship between Canada and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Canada has an embassy in Kinshasa and D.R. Congo has an embassy in Ottawa (...) | |
| 14 | Musonoi Mine ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1459 Lat/Lng : -10.7167 / 25.4 | The Musonoi mine is a set of open-cut pits near Kolwezi from which copper and other metals have been extracted since the 1940s. The mining complex is located in the Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kolwezi is about northwest from Lubumbashi, the provincial capital. (...) | |
| 15 | National Assembly (Democratic Republic of the Congo) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 291 Lat/Lng : -4.3322 / 15.3031 | The National Assembly is the lower house and main legislative political body of the Parliament of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was established by the 2006 constitution. It is located at the People's Palace in Kinshasa. (...) | |
| 16 | Lake Nzilo ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 1265 Lat/Lng : -10.5597 / 25.628 | Lake Nzilo (formerly Lake Delcommune, also Lac del Commune) is a reservoir formed by a hydroelectric dam on the Lualaba River in the Haut-Lomami Province of the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is about northeast of the major copper mining area of Kolwezi (...) | |
| 17 | Kolwezi tailings project ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1526 Lat/Lng : -10.7116 / 25.3966 | The Kolwezi tailings project is a major project in the Kolwezi mining area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to recover copper from the tailings, or processed ore, from mining in the region since the 1950s (...) | |
| 18 | Shaba I ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1094 Lat/Lng : -10.3667 / 23.45 | Shaba I was a conflict in Zaire's Shaba (Katanga) Province lasting from March 8, 1977, to May 26, 1977. The conflict began when the Front for the National Liberation of the Congo (FNLC), a group of about 2,000 Katangan Congolese soldiers (veterans of the Congo Crisis, the Angolan War of (...) | |
| 19 | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lubumbashi ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1255 Lat/Lng : -11.6657 / 27.4798 | The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lubumbashi is the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (...) | |
| 20 | Mashamba East ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1408 Lat/Lng : -10.7429 / 25.3925 | Mashamba East is an open pit copper mine near to Kolwezi in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, currently not being actively worked. (...) | |
| 21 | Inga–Shaba HVDC ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 223 Lat/Lng : -5.5242 / 13.6108 | The Inga–Shaba EHVDC Intertie (officially: The Inga–Shaba Extra High Voltage D.C. Intertie; nickname: Inga–Shaba and also referred to as Inga–Kolwezi) is a -long high-voltage direct current overhead electric power transmission line in the Democratic Republic of Congo, linking the Inga hydroelectric (...) | |
| 22 | Kananga Mine ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1404 Lat/Lng : -10.6665 / 25.4664 | The Kananga Mine is an open pit copper mine near Kolwezi in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (...) | |
| 23 | Lonshi Mine ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1305 Lat/Lng : -13.1751 / 28.9391 | Lonshi Mine is a copper mine in Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the southeast of Ndola, Zambia. (...) | |
| 24 | Kalukundi Mine ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1409 Lat/Lng : -10.6232 / 25.8998 | Kalukundi Mine is a copper and cobalt mine being developed in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by Africo Resources, a Canadian company. In September 2008 the company estimated the value of the resource as $1.47 billion. (...) | |
| 25 | Mutanda Mine ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1395 Lat/Lng : -10.7858 / 25.8082 | The Mutanda Mine is an open-pit copper mine in the Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (...) | |
| 26 | Etoile Mine ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1271 Lat/Lng : -11.6356 / 27.5832 | The Etoile Mine is an open-pit copper mine on the outskirts of Lubumbashi in Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Chemaf (Chemical of Africa) owns the license. Chemaf is 95% owned by Shalina Resources and 5% by the DRC government. (...) | |
| 27 | Tilwezembe ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1371 Lat/Lng : -10.7991 / 25.6924 | Tilwezembe is an open-pit copper and cobalt mine in Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo operated by Katanga Mining, a subsidiary of Glencore. The mine covers an area of . It has an indicated nine million tones of ore with 1.89% copper and 0.60% cobalt (...) | |
| 28 | Mutoshi Mine ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1424 Lat/Lng : -10.6778 / 25.5353 | Mutoshi Mine is a copper mine in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. As of 2011 it was 70% owned by Anvil Mining and 30% by the state-owned Gécamines. The mine was placed on care and maintenance in late 2008. (...) | |
| 29 | Lubudi River ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1317 Lat/Lng : -11.2596 / 24.6348 | The Lubudi River (or Labody) is a tributary of the Lualaba River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Lubudi rises near the Zambian border southwest of Kolwezi. It flows north and northeast to join the Lualaba from the left where the southern Katanga plateau drops into the Upemba (...) | |
| 30 | Gécamines ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1513 Lat/Lng : -10.7109 / 25.399 | La Générale des Carrières et des Mines (Gécamines) is a Congolese commodity trading and mining company headquartered in Lubumbashi, in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is a state-controlled corporation founded in 1966 and a successor to the Union Minière du Haut Katanga (...) | |