Mipaka API Update: 47 Historical Eras, 124 Colonial-Era Place Names, and DRC's Complete Administrative History

What's Changed Since Launch In Part 1, I introduced Mipaka — a free REST API for administrative divisions across 7 East/Central African countries. The focus was the basics: cascading dropdowns, search, filtering, and bulk export. Since then, the API has grown significantly. Here's everything new. By the Numbers Metric At Launch Now Divisions 103,194 88,000+ Countries 7 7 Historical eras ~10 47 Historical place names ~60 124 Historical divisions 0 229 Cities with coordinates 0 34 (DRC) Why did the division count drop? Rwanda's data was resynced with corrected upstream sources, removing duplicate villages. The data is more accurate now. 47 Historical Eras Every country now has a complete chain of eras — from pre-colonial kingdoms through colonial occupation to the present day. GET /api/v1/eras/?country=CD DRC alone has 7 eras: Era Period Type Kingdom of Kongo ~1390–1914 Pre-colonial Luba Empire ~1585–1889 Pre-colonial Congo Free State 1885–1908 Colonial (Belgian) Belgian Congo 1908–1960