The primary purpose of this administrative reform was to rely on the Central Railway to rationally arrange industries across the inland regions. Thus, Zambia, the southern Congolese plateau (Katanga Plateau), and Zimbabwe were divided into three provinces.
Swabia Province's main industry was copper mining. Besides copper, it also possessed cobalt, tin, and uranium mines, while gold mines were distributed throughout Hesse Province. Its population was mainly concentrated in the southern tropical savanna, while the north was tropical rainforest.
Compared with Katanga Province in the Congo of his previous life, Swabia Province in East Africa had actually become smaller, but its mineral resources still accounted for more than sixty percent of the Congo's total.
In his previous life, the Congo's Katanga Province's resources, such as cobalt and uranium, had in fact been controlled by Americans. Katanga's cobalt reserves accounted for seventy percent of the world's total, its uranium reserves (uranium-238) sixty percent, its tin ten percent, and its copper roughly eight percent. (Data varied among institutions and was for reference only.)
Such a wealth of resources had left the Katanga region mired in endless conflict in his previous life. Britain, the United States, Belgium, and Russia had all supported local factions there; even Rwanda had stuck its hand into the mess.
Hohenzollern Province was not poorly endowed with resources either. Located in the middle, it enjoyed convenient north-south transport and could handle resource exchanges between Swabia Province and Matabele Province to its north and south.
Matabele Province—Zimbabwe—was most famous for the Great Dyke of Zimbabwe, which ran north to south through central Zimbabwe and basically followed the Central Railway.
This was the main reason why the Central Railway had been built from Harare to Bulawayo rather than taking a shortcut, why the British route through King's Falls (Victoria Falls) of his