Katanga

Katanga may refer to:

Political entities

• Katanga Province, a former province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• State of Katanga, a breakaway state which existed from 1960 to 1963
  • Katanga Crisis or "Congo Crisis", a period of turmoil in the First Republic of the Congo from 1960 to 1965
• Haut-Katanga Province, a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, created in 2015
• History of Katanga, details of the region from early times, under Luba kingdom, Belgian rule, independent Congo

Places

• Katanga, Dominican Republic, a section of Los Mina, founded by maroons from the Congo who fled French rule
• Katanga Plateau, a plateau in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Garenganze or Katanga in Central Africa, the home of the pre-colonial Yeke Kingdom of Msiri
• Katanga River, a river in Russia
• Katanga Slum, a settlement in central Uganda

People

• Germain Katanga (born 1978), a Congolese militia leader accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court
• Simon Katanga, a fictional character in the film Raiders of the Lost Ark

Other uses

• 1817 Katanga, a main-belt asteroid
• Luba-Katanga language, a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Katanga insurgency, an ongoing rebellion by a number of rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

See also

• Khatanga (disambiguation)
• Katana (disambiguation)