Uélé Province
Uélé Province is a former province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was formed in 1963 from part of Orientale Province. In 1966 it was merged back into the reconstituted Orientale Province. It roughly corresponds to the modern provinces of Bas-Uélé and Haut-Uélé Haut-Uélé (French for "Upper Uélé") is one of the 21 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Haut-Uélé, Bas-Uélé, Ituri, and Tshopo provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the .... Region The province took its name from the Uélé River. The Uélé region was once home to assimilating kingdoms (not Bantu), which however left only a scattered settlements. Bas-Uélé is the domain of the Zande people, and Haut-Uélé the domain of the Mangbetu people. In recent times, Haut-Uélé has been exploited for gold mining. Administration The heads of Uélé Province were: Notes Sources * {{coord missing, Democratic Republic of t ...
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Democratic Republic Of The Congo (26 Provinces) - Bas-Uele
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in Central Africa. It is bordered to the northwest by the Republic of the Congo, to the north by the Central African Republic, to the northeast by South Sudan, to the east by Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi, and by Tanzania (across Lake Tanganyika), to the south and southeast by Zambia, to the southwest by Angola, and to the west by the South Atlantic Ocean and the Cabinda Province, Cabinda exclave of Angola. By area, it is the List of African countries by area, second-largest country in Africa and the List of countries and dependencies by area, 11th-largest in the world. With a population of around 108 million, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most populous List of countries and territories where French is an official language, off ...
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