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Kananga

capital city of the Kasai-Central Province in DRC and capital of the former Kasaï-Occidental Province
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Summary

Kananga is an official city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo[1]. Kananga draws 1,392 Wikipedia views per month (official city of the democratic republic of the congo category, ranking #8 of 26).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Kasaï-Central[3]
  • Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo[4]
  • Instance of: big city[5]
  • Commons category: Kananga, Congo[6]
  • Located in time zone: UTC+02:00[7]
  • Inception: 1884[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Kananga[9]
  • Population: 1,971,704[10]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[11]
  • Capital of: Kasaï-Central[12]
  • Official name: Kananga[13]
  • Category for people born here: Q32670925[14]
  • Native label: Kananga[15]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Kananga[16]
  • Elevation above sea level: 608 m[17]
  • Area: 743 km²[18]

Why It Matters

Kananga has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] Kananga is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

Democratic Republic of the Congo Étienne Tshisekedi Marie Myriam Université de Kananga Université Notre Dame du Kasayi Université Pédagogique de Kananga

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . caid.cd. caid.cd. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . caid.cd. caid.cd. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14d ago · Kasimradjabu48 · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → UTC+02:00
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Capital of: Kasaï-Central"
  2. 15d ago · Afanasovich · 2026-10-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Native label → {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'Kananga'}
    Sitelink count → 63
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'azb', 'bg', 'ca', 'ce', 'ceb', 'commons', 'cs', 'da', 'de',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Native label: Kananga"
  3. 8w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Category of associated people → Category:People from Kananga
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Kasaï-Central
    Inception → —
    Coordinate location → {'lat': -5.8961111111111, 'lon': 22.416666666667}
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48043|batch #48043]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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