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Nkéni-Alima Department

Department of the Republic of the Congo

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Nkéni-Alima is a department of the Republic of the Congo. It was created on 8 October 2024 from the northern part of Plateaux Department. Its capital is Gamboma. It is named after the Nkéni and Alima rivers.

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“Nkéni-Alima Department” enters the record as department of the Republic of the Congo. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nkéni-Alima, Department and Republic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nkéni-Alima Department” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.