Haut-Katanga Province

Haut-Katanga (French for "Upper Katanga") is one of the 21 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning.

Lubumbashi retained its status as a provincial capital, and as of 2020, it had an estimated population of 5,718,800.

[3] The new province's territory corresponds to the historic Katanga-Oriental that existed in the early period after independence between 1963 and 1966.

Along with Lualaba, Haut-Katanga is in the Copperbelt of Central Africa.

The DRC is only behind Chile, Peru, and the PRC in largest amount of copper produced globally.

Administrative map of Haut-Katanga.