Katanga

K5A1T1A1N1G2A1

proper noun

A region in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, originally conquered by the Congo Free State (owned by the Belgian king, not his European state) but administered as a corporate mining concession.

UncommonScrabble 12
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A region in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, originally conquered by the Congo Free State (owned by the Belgian king, not his European state) but administered as a corporate mining concession.
  2. Since 1910, an autonomous part of the Belgian colony Congo.
  3. Since 1933, a regular province, until 1947 however named after its capital: Elisabethstad in Dutch or Elisabethville in French.
  4. In 1960 a unilaterally declared independent state; in 1961-63 reconquered by Congo and reorganized in three provinces until 1966; renamed Shaba 1972-1997 as part of president Mobutu's Zaireanization.

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Kataang
Cite this entry
APA

Katanga. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Katanga

MLA

“Katanga.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Katanga. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Katanga,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Katanga.

Source: Katanga on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.