Katanga

Katanga may refer to:

Political entities

 * Katanga Province, a former province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
 * State of Katanga, a breakaway state which existed from 1960 to 1963
 * Katanga Crisis or "Congo Crisis", a period of turmoil in the First Republic of the Congo from 1960 to 1965
 * Haut-Katanga Province, a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, created in 2015
 * History of Katanga, details of the region from early times, under Luba kingdom, Belgian rule, independent Congo

Places

 * Katanga, Dominican Republic, a section of Los Mina, founded by maroons from the Congo who fled French rule
 * Katanga Plateau, a plateau in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
 * Garenganze or Katanga in Central Africa, the home of the pre-colonial Yeke Kingdom of Msiri
 * Katanga River, a river in Russia
 * Katanga Slum, a settlement in central Uganda

People

 * Germain Katanga (born 1978), a Congolese militia leader accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court
 * Simon Katanga, a fictional character in the film Raiders of the Lost Ark

Other uses

 * 1817 Katanga, a main-belt asteroid
 * Luba-Katanga language, a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
 * Katanga insurgency, an ongoing rebellion by a number of rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo