It adjoins Hudson Bay to the northeast, and is the only prairie province with a coastline.

He also spelled Vinland in Latin the same as Wendland, the German province which adjoins Denmark.

Within North Gyeongsang province, Mungyeong adjoins Yecheon County to the east and Sangju City to the south.

He had sought talks with Moise Tshombe, the secessionist president of Congo's Katanga province where recent fighting had been bloody.

On July 11 the head of the mineral-rich province of Katanga, Moise Tshombe, announced that his province had seceded from the country.

) Lumumba further complicated the U.N.'s mission by initiating small `` wars '' with the secessionist province of Katanga and with South Kasai which, under Albert Kalonji, wanted to secede as well.

But they left behind them large numbers of officers, variously called `` volunteers '' or `` mercenaries '', who now staff the army of Moise Tshombe in Katanga, the seceded province which, according to Tshombe, holds 65% of the mineral wealth of the entire country.

On 11 July 1960 the richest province of the country, Katanga, seceded under Moise Tshombe.

* Southern-most point-unnamed location on the border with Zambia immediately to north-west of the Zambian town of Ndabala, Katanga province

Two days later on 11 July, Moise Tshombe declared the independence of Katanga province in the south-east, closely backed by remaining Belgian administrators and soldiers.

Moïse Katumbi Chapwe, a businessman, is the governor of Katanga province.

Copper mining is an important part of the economy of Katanga province.

The province also borders Tanzania, although Katanga province and Tanzania do not share a land border but the border is within Lake Tanganyika.

* 1978 – In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba ( now known as Katanga ).

** Moise Tshombe declares the Congolese province of Katanga independent.

During the war, the largest known reserves of uranium were in the Katanga ( a province of the Belgian Congo ).

The province of Katanga declared independence under regional premier Moïse Tshombe on 11 July 1960 with support from the Belgian government and mining companies such as Union Minière.

In 1960 and 1961 Mike Hoare worked as a mercenary commanding an English speaking unit called " 4 Commando " supporting a faction in Katanga, a province trying to break away from the newly independent Congo under the leadership of Moïse Tshombe.

Lumumba was later handed to Moise Tshombe's secessionist forces in the southern province of Katanga and murdered.

Many of these mercenaries had fought for Katanga when Tshombe was leader of the breakaway province.

The most contested part was in the province of Katanga where the Union Minière du Haut Katanga, part of the Société, had control over the mineral-and resource-rich province.

After 1900, the Belgian Congo province of Katanga on the western shores of the lake developed faster than the Northern Rhodesian side, the Luapula Province and the town of Kasenga a few hours by boat up the Luapula River became the most developed in the Luapula-Mweru valley, and until the 1960s was the main commercial centre with better services and infrastructure than elsewhere.

Category: People from Katanga ( province )

* Easternmost point-unnamed location immediately east of the tripoint with Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and south of the town of Ezo in Sudan, Haut-Mbomou province

In 2012, there was an outbreak of Bundibugyo ebolavirus in a northeastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The then-opposition Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) agreed to retain the province with an elected governor in the hopes of creating a " Yeltsin effect " in which a popular local leader could overwhelm the national government.

Matadi is the chief sea port of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the capital of the Bas-Congo province.

* The Associação Popular Democrática Timorense ( Timorese Popular Democratic Association or " Apodeti ") supported integration with Indonesia, as an autonomous province, but had little grassroots support.

He became premier of the province in the 1975 election when his party defeated the New Democratic Party of Premier David Barrett.

In the Canadian province of Ontario, the Liberal Party formed a minority government from 1985 to 1987 on the basis of a formal accord with the New Democratic Party ( NDP ): the NDP agreed to support the Liberals for two years on all confidence motions and budgetary legislation, in exchange for the passage of certain legislative measures proposed by the NDP.

Originally from Königsberg, East Prussia, Braun became a leader of the Social Democratic Party in that province, and in 1913 was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives.

* Bas-Congo, a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

When the TDFR was dissolved in May 1918, Nakhchivan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Zangezur ( today the Armenian province of Syunik ), and Qazakh were heavily contested between the newly formed and short-lived states of the Democratic Republic of Armenia ( DRA ) and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic ( ADR ).

When the TDFR was dissolved in May 1918, Nakhchivan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Zangezur ( today the Armenian province of Syunik ), and Qazakh were heavily contested between the newly formed and short-lived states of the Democratic Republic of Armenia ( DRA ) and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic ( ADR ).

In 1948, the province became part of the new Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

He served as the MPLA's representative to Yugoslavia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the People's Republic of China before being elected to the Central Committee and Politburo of the MPLA in Moxico ( province ) in September 1974.

Kengo was born in Libenge, Équateur province, Belgian Congo ( later Zaire and now Democratic Republic of Congo ).

The hostage-takers were members of the Democratic Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Arabistan ( DRFLA )— Iranian Arabs protesting for the restoration of regional autonomy to the Iranian province of Khūzestān, also known as Arabistan.

* Lualaba Province, a proposed province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kgosi Lucas Manyane Mangope ( born 27 December 1923 ) is the former leader of the Bantustan of Bophuthatswana and founder and former leader of the United Christian Democratic Party, a minor political party based in the North West province of South Africa.

The New Democratic Party, led by Jack Layton, won 103 seats to become the official opposition for the first time in party history, as a late-campaign surge of support in Quebec took them from one to 59 seats at the expense of the other parties, particularly the Bloc Québécois which saw their 47 seats in that province reduced to a rump of four seats.

At the time of the independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the province was part of the greater province of Leopoldville, along with the city of Kinshasa and the districts of Kwango, Kwilu and Mai-Ndombe.

Maniema is a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

North Kivu ( Nord-Kivu in French ) is a province bordering Lake Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

South Kivu ( Sud-Kivu in French ) is a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.