Place:Katanga, Republic of the Congo

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Name	Katanga
Alt names	Elisabethville	source: Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) p 1103
	Sha'ba	source: Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) p 584
	Shaba	source: Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 852-853; Encyclopædia Britannica (1985) X, 681-682; Times Atlas of World History (1989) p 354; Times Atlas of the World (1994) Plate 92; Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) p 1103
Type	Unrecognized State
Coordinates	9°S 26.0°E
Located in	Republic of the Congo

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Katanga was one of the four large provinces created in the Belgian Congo in 1914. It 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 was Shaba Province.

Katanga's area encompassed . Farming and ranching are carried out on the Katanga Plateau. The eastern part of the province is considered to be a rich mining region, which supplies cobalt, copper, tin, radium, uranium, and diamonds. The region's former capital, Lubumbashi, is the second-largest city in the Congo. Katanga is a province.

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