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5 unusual facts about Orientale Province


Bas-Uele District

Bas-Uele District is a district located in Orientale Province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Orientale

Orientale Province, a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Pericopsis elata

The Democratic Republic of Congo has the world's largest remaining stocks of Afrormosia, which are largely confined to the Équateur Province and Orientale Province.

Petronille Vaweka

Petronille Vaweka is a humanitarian NGO activist and the interim chairperson of the Ituri Interim Assembly of Ituri Interim Administration, which is currently in transition from the status of a district of Orientale Province to a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Tjostolv Moland

On 8 September 2009, a DRC military tribunal in Kisangani (the capital of Orientale Province) found them both guilty of all charges and sentenced them to death.


Soko language

Soko, or So (also Eso, Gesogo, Heso, Soa) is a language spoken, 1971, by about 6,000 people in the Orientale Province, north of Basoko in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Victor Nendaka Bika

Victor Nendaka was born on August 7, 1923 in Kumu, Buta Territory, Bas-Uele District in the North-Eastern Congo, also referred to as the Orientale Province.

Zande people

The Congolese Azande live in Orientale Province, specifically along the Uele River; and the Central African Azande live in the districts of Rafaï, Zémio, and Obo.


see also

Mbola

Mbole people, an ethnic group living in the Orientale Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Stanleyville

Stanleyville, the former name for the regionally important city of Kisangani on the Congo River, the capital of Orientale Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo