Pool Department

Pool

Mpumbu, Nsundi or Mbula Ntangu
Pool Mpumbu, Nsundi or Mbula Ntangu
Department
	Pool, department of the Republic of the Congo
Country	Republic of the Congo
Capital	Kinkala
Area
• Total	33,955 km2 (13,110 sq mi)
Population (2023 census)
• Total	394,532
• Density	12/km2 (30/sq mi)
HDI (2018)	0.484; low · 12th of 12

Pool (Kongo: Mpumbu, Nsundi, Mbula Ntangu^[2]^[3]) is a department of the Republic of the Congo in the southeastern part of the country. It borders the departments of Bouenza, Lékoumou, and Plateaux. Internationally, it borders the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It also surrounds the commune district of the national capital, Brazzaville.

The regional capital is Kinkala. Principal towns include Boko, Kindamba and Mindouli. In the early 2000s, the Pool region was the home of a low-level insurgency led by Pasteur Ntumi. The inhabitants of this department are the Kongo, the Téké and the Native population (Pygmies).^[4]^[5]

The region is named after the Pool Malebo (formerly Stanley Pool), a particularly wide stretch of the Congo River.

Administrative divisions

Pool Department is divided into thirteen districts:

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^ Elisabeth Dorier; Rodrigue Kinouani; Erwan Morand; Damien Rouquier; Quentin Fleuret (2011). "Une zone enclavée en situation post-confit: le district de Kindamba (Pool, République du Congo). Diagnostic territorial dans en vue d'un Projet d'appui au Développement Communautaire". HAL OPEN SCIENCE (in French).
^ Roger BOUKA OWOKO; Roch Euloge N’ZOBO; OBSERVATOIRE CONGOLAIS DES DROITS DE L’HOMME (OCDH); UNION EUROPÉENNE (2011). "LES PEUPLES AUTOCHTONES DE LA REPUBLIQUE DU CONGO : DISCRIMINATION ET ESCLAVAGE" (PDF). GITPA.ORG (in French). Archived from the original on March 29, 2017.