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Zaire province [capital = M'banza-Kongo]

Vestiges of the Capital of the former Kingdom of Kongo in Mbanza Kongo at S6 16 8 E14 14 59
The Cathedral was standing when in 1608, the Pope accredited in Rome the first ambassador of a sub-Saharan African state to the Vatican. The Jesuit College reflects the status given to Mbanza Kongo as a seat of learning and is the place where in 1624 the first catechism was written in the Kikongo language to be used to spread Christianity across the Kingdom.