Tshela (or Tsela) is the main town of Bas-fleuve district in
Kongo Central Province in the
Democratic Republic of Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ...
. The town was linked to the port of
Boma by an isolated
narrow gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge (distance between the rails) narrower than . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and .
Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with Minimum railw ...
, the
Mayumbe Line. This 600mm (converted from gauge in 1932) between 1889 and 1932 before being converted to gauge line lasted from 1889 to 1984.
References
populated places in Kongo Central
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