Banalia is a

territory A territory is an area of land, sea, or space, particularly belonging or connected to a country, person, or animal. In international politics, a territory is usually either the total area from which a state may extract power resources or a ...

and a locality of

Tshopo Tshopo is one of the 21 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. It is situated in the north central part of the country on the Tshopo River, for which it is named. Tshopo, Bas-Uele, Haut-Uel ...

province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located in the north-central part of the country, 1,300 km northeast of the capital Kinshasa . The locality was one of the milestones during the

Emin Pasha relief expedition The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1886 to 1889 was one of the last major European expeditions into the interior of Africa in the nineteenth century, ostensibly to the relief of Emin Pasha, General Charles Gordon's besieged governor of Equato ...

. The region is also rich in iron ore, which was to feed the Maluku steel plant. In the surroundings around Banalia grows mainly clean green deciduous forest. Around Banalia, it is very sparsely populated, with 6 inhabitants per square kilometer. Tropical monsoon climate prevails in the area. Annual average temperature in the funnel is 21 °C. The warmest month is May, when the average temperature is 22 °C, and the coldest is March, at 20 °C. Average annual rainfall is 1,540 millimeters. The rainy month is October, with an average of 236 mm rainfall, and the driest is January, with 28 mm rainfall.

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{{coord missing, Democratic Republic of the Congo Populated places in Tshopo Territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo