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Kisangani

#258 in World

DR Congo

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© Yannick MbangiCC BY-SA 4.0
Population
1.2M
Coordinates
0.5153, 25.1901
Category
cities

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Kisangani, formerly Stanleyville, is the capital of Tshopo Province, located on the Congo River in the eastern part of the central Congo Basin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the country's fifth-most populous urban area, with an estimated population of 1,602,144 as of 2016, and the largest of the cities in the tropical woodlands of the Congo.

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