# Katanga

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**Katanga** may refer to:

## Political entities

- [Katanga Province](/source/Katanga_Province), a former province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- [State of Katanga](/source/State_of_Katanga), a breakaway state which existed from 1960 to 1963 - [Katanga Crisis](/source/Katanga_Crisis) or "Congo Crisis", a period of turmoil in the First Republic of the Congo from 1960 to 1965
- [Haut-Katanga Province](/source/Haut-Katanga_Province), a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, created in 2015
- [History of Katanga](/source/History_of_Katanga), details of the region from early times, under Luba kingdom, Belgian rule, independent Congo

## Places

- [Katanga, Dominican Republic](/source/Katanga,_Dominican_Republic), a section of [Los Mina](/source/Los_Mina), founded by maroons from the Congo who fled French rule
- [Katanga Plateau](/source/Katanga_Plateau), a plateau in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- [Garenganze](/source/Garenganze) or *Katanga* in Central Africa, the home of the pre-colonial Yeke Kingdom of Msiri
- [Katanga River](/source/Katanga_River), a river in Russia
- [Katanga Slum](/source/Katanga_Slum), a settlement in central Uganda

## People

- [Germain Katanga](/source/Germain_Katanga) (born 1978), a Congolese militia leader
- [Simon Katanga](/source/Simon_Katanga), a fictional character in the film *Raiders of the Lost Ark*

## Music

- *[Katanga](/source/Katanga!)*, an album by saxophonist Curtis Amy

## Other uses

- [1817 Katanga](/source/1817_Katanga), a main-belt asteroid
- [Luba-Katanga language](/source/Luba-Katanga_language), a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- [Katanga insurgency](/source/Katanga_insurgency), an ongoing rebellion by a number of rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

## See also

- [Khatanga (disambiguation)](/source/Khatanga_(disambiguation))
- [Katana (disambiguation)](/source/Katana_(disambiguation))

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