Boma

See also: Boma (homonymy)

Boma is a city and a port of the Democratic republic of Congo in the province of the Low-Congo, located on Right Bank of the Fleuve Congo. The city was the capital of the State independent of Congo of May 1st 1886 at October 31st 1929. Vivi was the first capital and Léopoldville succeeded to him.

It is crossed by two rivers, Kabondo and Kalamu.

Altitude: 19 Mr. Situation: to 117 km of Moanda, 125 km of Matadi, 140 km of Tshela and 470 km of Kinshasa.

It was starting from 1899 the station of departure of the line of Railroad of Mayombe, of which the last station was Tshela, native locality of Joseph Kasa-Vubu. It was dismantled under the mode of Mobutu Sese Seko to be rebuilt in province of the Ecuador where it was not of any utility.

Boma means fort in Kikongo and many languages bantoues. Besides Henry Morton Stanley in his work How I found Livingstone employs the term such as it is in this direction.

Curiosities

The old colonial district is relatively well preserved. Is there in particular the oldest church of the country, made out of steel. Near the port the baobab tree of Stanley is.

Internal bonds

External bonds

* Panorama of the river around Boma (on the right)

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