Équateur is one of the 21 newest provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created by the 2015 repartitioning.

[2] The current province was formed from the Équateur district and the independently administered city of Mbandaka which retained its status as a provincial capital.

Under Article 2 of the 2006 Constitution it was to assume its current boundaries,[4] but administratively they were not finalized until 2015.

The province consists of eight administrative subdivisions, one of which is the provincial capital, Mbandaka; and seven of which are territories:[5][6]

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