Zaire Province

Zaire
Nzadi
Zaire, province of Angola
Zaire, province of Angola
CountryAngola
CapitalM'Banza Kongo
Government
 • GovernorPedro Makita Armando Júlia
 • Vice-Governor for the Political, Economic and Social SectorAntónio Félix Kialunguila
 • Vice-Governor for Technical Services and InfrastructuresÂngela Maria Botelho de Carvalho Diogo
Area
 • Total
40,130 km2 (15,490 sq mi)
Population
 (2014 census)[1]
 • Total
594,428
 • Density15/km2 (40/sq mi)
ISO 3166 codeAO-ZAI
HDI (2018)0.601[2]
medium · 3rd
Websitewww.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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
  3. ^ Peter Forbath, The River Congo, Harper & Row, Publishers; First American Edition, 1977, p.19
  4. ^ René Lemarchand, Political Awakening in the Belgian Congo, 1988, University of California Press, p. 25.
  5. ^ Ghislain C. Kabwit, Zaïre: the Roots of the Continuing Crisis, Cambridge University Press, 1979
  6. ^ Jean-Jacques Arthur Malu-Malu, Le Congo Kinshasa, KARTHALA Editions, 2014, p. 171.
  7. ^ "Province/Zaire". Welcome to Angola.