Kasai District | |
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District | |
 Riders on various mounts (Lualaba-Kassai) before 1905 | |
 Kasai district of Kasai-Occidental province (2014) | |
| Coordinates: 5°21′00″S 21°25′00″E / 5.35°S 21.416667°E | |
| Country | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Province | Kasaï |
| District | Kasai |
Kasai District (French: District du Kasai, Dutch: District Kasai) was a district of the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, named after the Kasai River. It was formed around 1885 and went through several large changes in extent in the years that followed. The 1933 version of the district roughly corresponded to the former Kasai-Occidental province and the present Kasaï and Kasaï-Central provinces.