Idiofa Territory is an administrative area in the

Kwilu Province Kwilu is a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It's one of the 21 provinces created in the 2015 repartitioning. Kwilu, Kwango, and Mai-Ndombe provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the former Bandundu province. Kwi ...

of the

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. The capital is the town of

Idiofa Idiofa is a town in Kwilu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Location Idiofa is the administrative center for Idiofa Territory. Idiofa lies at an altitude of 1820 ft (554 m), east of the larger city of Kikwit, and west of the ...

Location

The territory has an area of . The Loange River defines the eastern boundary of the territory, while the

Kamtsha River The Kamtsha River (French: ''Rivière Kamtcha'') is a tributary of the Kasai River. The river flows north through Idiofa territory of Kwilu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo to its mouth on the Kasai River. The Kamtsha is the most impo ...

flows through the west of the territory. Other rivers include the Lubue and the PioPio. All these rivers flow from south to north, emptying into the

Kasai River The Kasai River ( ; called Cassai in Angola) is a tributary (left side) of the Congo River, located in Central Africa. The river begins in central Angola and flows to the east until it reaches the border between Angola and the Democratic Republ ...

, which defines the northern boundary.

People

The territory currently has a population of 1,450,035. The many ethnic groups today include the Bunda, Pende, Dinga,

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, Ngoli, Wongo, Yansi, Lele and Nzadi.

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is the administrative language, but almost all the people speak Kikongo, one of the four national languages of the DRC. Some of the younger people also speak

Lingala Lingala (Ngala) (Lingala: ''Lingála'') is a Bantu language spoken in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the northern half of the Republic of the Congo, in their capitals, Kinshasa and Brazzaville, and to a lesser degree ...

Administration

The colonial administrators originally named the territory "Babunda Territory" after the largest ethnic group, the

Bunda people The Bunda people or (also ''Ambuun'', ''Mbuun'') in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are an ethnic group that mostly live in Idiofa Territory, Kwilu District of Bandundu Province. They speak the Mpuono language, spoken by an estimated 165,000 ...

. The Territory was renamed the Kamtsha-Lubue Territory after the largest of the rivers. Later the territory was extended east, renamed again to the Kamtsha-Luange Territory. The Idiofa Territory today has five cities and 12 sectors. The cities are

, Dibaya-Lubwe,

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, Panu, Mongombala (at Bulungu border), and Kalo (Kamtsha-Loange). The sectors are Banga, Belo, Bulwem, Kalanganda, Kanga, Kapia, Kipuku, Madimbi, Mateko, Musanga-Idiofa, Sedzo and Yasa-Lokwa.

References

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