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5-738: Tshela (or Tsela) is the main town of Bas-fleuve district in Kongo Central Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo . The town was linked to the port of Boma by an isolated narrow gauge railway , the Mayumbe Line . This 600mm (converted from 610-millimetre (24 in) gauge in 1932) between 1889 and 1932 before being converted to gauge line lasted from 1889 to 1984. 04°58′00″S 12°56′00″E / 4.96667°S 12.93333°E / -4.96667; 12.93333 This Democratic Republic of
10-531: The Congo location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kongo Central Kongo Central ( Kongo : Kongo dia Kati ), formerly Bas-Congo , is one of the 26 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo . Its capital is Matadi . At the time of independence, the area now encompassing Kongo Central was part of the greater province of Léopoldville , along with
15-418: The capital city of Kinshasa and the districts of Kwango , Kwilu and Mai-Ndombe . Under Belgian colonial rule, the province was known as Bas-Congo (as in "Lower Congo River") and was renamed Kongo Central after independence. Under the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko from 1965 to 1997, the Congo river was renamed as Zaire . The province was named as Bas-Zaïre . The name was later reverted to Bas-Congo. It
20-578: The province from the north-east to the south-west. It is navigable from the Atlantic Ocean to the port city of Matadi after which there are a series of rapids that make it unnavigable until the Malebo Pool . The provincial capital is Matadi, with Boma being the other official city. The remainder of the province is administratively divided into ten territories, the most of any province: Before 2015 these territories were divisions of
25-487: Was subsequently renamed as Kongo Central in 2015. Kongo Central is the only province in the country with an ocean coastline; it has narrow frontage on the Atlantic Ocean to the west. It borders the city-province of Kinshasa to the north-east, the province of Kwango to the east, and the Republic of Angola to the south as well as the Republic of the Congo and Cabinda to the north. The lower Congo River traverses
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