Buta Territory 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 ...

Bas-Uele District Bas-Uele District (french: District du Bas-Uele, nl, District Beneden-Uele) was a district of the Belgian Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was formed from part of Uele District in 1912. Later it was merged back into Uele Distric ...

, Orientale Province,

Democratic Republic of the Congo 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 ...

. The administrative capital is located at Buta.

Geography

The territory borders Bondo Territory to the northwest, Bamesa Territory to the northeast and east,

Aketi Territory Aketi Territory is a territory in the Bas-Uele Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The administrative capital is located at Aketi. The territory borders Bondo Territory to the north, Buta Territory to the east, Basoko Territory t ...

to the west,

Basoko Territory Basoko is a town on the Congo River in the Tshopo Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As of 2009 it had an estimated population of 47,970. Notable people *George Grenfell George Grenfell (21 August 1849, in Sancreed, Cornwal ...

to the southwest and

Banalia Territory Banalia is a territory and a locality of Tshopo 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 d ...

Orientale Province Orientale Province ( French: ''Province orientale'', "Eastern province") is one of the former provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its predecessors the Congo Free State and the Belgian Congo. It went through a series of boundary ...

to the south. Rivers include the Balima River, Tele River, Lemoi River,

Rubi River The Rubi River (french: Rivière Rubi) is a left tributary of the Itimbiri River, which forms where the Rubi joins the Likati River. Course The Rubi River originates in the southeast of the Bas-Uélé Bas-Uélé (French for "Lower Uélé") is ...

People

The territory contains populations of the Avuru-Mange speaking the

Zande language Zande is the largest of the Zande languages. It is spoken by the Azande, primarily in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and western South Sudan, but also in the eastern part of the Central African Republic. It is called Pazan ...

Subdivisions

The territory contains the following chiefdoms/sectors: * Barisi-Mongingita Chiefdom * Bayeu-Bogongia Chiefdom * Bayeu-Bogbama Chiefdom * Mobati Chiefdom * Monganzolo Chiefdom * Nguru Chiefdom As of 2003 the territory was divided into two health zones, one based on Buta and the other based on

Titulé Titulé is a village in the Bas-Uélé province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was the terminus of a branch of the defunct Vicicongo line, a railway. The town is the center of a health zone and has a general referral hospital. Locatio ...

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References

Territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Populated places in Bas-Uélé {{DRCongo-geo-stub