EPSG systems

EPSG:3316 Kasai 1953 / Congo TM zone 22

Projected system (Transverse Mercator) in use: Congo DR (Zaire) - 6th parallel south 21.5°E to 23°E. The full definition below, and conversion in one click.

EPSG publishes no simple transformation to WGS 84 for this datum: conversion works on the ellipsoid alone and can be off by tens of metres.

System record
CodeEPSG:3316
NameKasai 1953 / Congo TM zone 22
TypeProjected system — Transverse Mercator
Area of use Congo DR (Zaire) - 6th parallel south 21.5°E to 23°E
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) - adjacent to 6th parallel south traverse between 21°30'E and 23°E.
Bounds W 21,50° · S -7,31° · E 23,01° · N -5,31°
Countries Congo - Kinshasa
DatumKasai 1953
Ellipsoid Clarke 1880 (RGS) a = 6378249.145 m · 1/f = 293.465
Base geographic system EPSG:4696 — Kasai 1953
Unit metre (E east, N north)
Transformation to WGS 84 No simple transformation published (ellipsoid alone)
ScopeCadastre, engineering survey, topographic mapping (medium scale).

Projection parameters

ParameterValueUnit
Latitude of natural origin0degree
Longitude of natural origin22degree
Scale factor at natural origin0.9999unity
False easting500000metre
False northing10000000metre

proj4 definition

+proj=tmerc +lat_0=0 +lon_0=22 +k=0.9999 +x_0=500000 +y_0=10000000 +a=6378249.145 +rf=293.465 +units=m +no_defs

Paste it into QGIS, proj4js, PostGIS (spatial_ref_sys) or GDAL. +towgs84 carries the EPSG transformation to WGS 84; the official code stays EPSG:3316.

WKT (ESRI format, the .prj content)

PROJCS["Kasai_1953_Congo_TM_Zone_22",GEOGCS["GCS_Kasai_1953",DATUM["D_Kasai_1953",SPHEROID["Clarke_1880_RGS",6378249.145,293.465]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",500000.0],PARAMETER["False_Northing",10000000.0],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",22.0],PARAMETER["Scale_Factor",0.9999],PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",0.0],UNIT["Meter",1.0]]

All systems — Congo - Kinshasa

Source: EPSG registry v11.022 (IOGP), through the PROJ database. Always check a code on epsg.org before contractual work.