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The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the second largest country in Africa, and most maps of it are out of date. In 2015 the eleven provinces it had inherited were split into twenty-six, so the Katanga, Orientale and Bandundu that older atlases draw are now each several provinces, and a name that was once one big region is now a small part of it.
The provinces of the DR Congo, the first tier of the country. Kinshasa, the capital, is a province in its own right and by far the smallest, a city on the Congo river at the western end of the map. Names are in French, which is what the country uses, with the accents the government writes them with.
The map is easier to read as a river basin than as a list. The Congo runs in a great arc through the north and west, and the provinces of the middle, Équateur, Mongala, Tshuapa, Mai-Ndombe and Tshopo, are the rainforest it drains. The south is the plateau of the old Katanga, where Haut-Katanga and Lualaba hold the copper belt. The east is the line of lakes on the border with Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania, with the Kivu provinces and Ituri facing the Rift Valley.
The groups are the eleven provinces the country had until 2015, which Congolese people still use to place things, with two joins to keep the legend short: the three eastern provinces of the old Kivu, joined to Maniema, and Kinshasa joined to Kongo Central, the capital and its port. The provinces are the DR Congo Territories grouped, so the borders of the two maps match exactly.
Kinshasa is the smallest province by a long way, a city of many millions on the south bank of the Congo, facing Brazzaville across the water. It is small enough to need a tap area on the map.
Kongo Central is the province with the country's only stretch of Atlantic coast, a narrow outlet in the far west. Its ports, Matadi and Boma, are where the river's last navigable reach ends.
Haut-Katanga is the south eastern corner, round Lubumbashi, and the biggest of the four provinces that used to be Katanga: Lualaba, Haut-Lomami and Tanganyika are the rest.
26, including the capital Kinshasa, which has been a province of its own for longer than the split of 2015.
The constitution of 2006 set the 26 provinces, and they replaced the eleven of the old map in 2015. Katanga, Orientale, Bandundu, Équateur and the two Kasaïs were each split.
The old provinces, so a player who knows the map from before 2015 can place the new ones inside it. The Kivu provinces share a group with Maniema, and Kinshasa with Kongo Central.
The tier below this one is DR Congo Territories. For another country in the same region, see Rwanda Provinces.
