Souanké is a city and capital of Souanké District in the

Sangha Region Sangha is a department of the Republic of the Congo in the northern part of the country. It borders the departments of Cuvette, Cuvette-Ouest, and Likouala, and internationally, Cameroon, Gabon and the Central African Republic. The regional ...

of northwestern

Republic of the Congo The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo), is a country located on the western coast of Central ...

, located close to the border with

Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R ...

. The city is located around fifty kilometres north-east of Mont Nabemba, the highest point in the country. The city is served by Souanké Airport.

Notable people

* Gabriel Entcha-Ebia (born 1956), Congolese politician

References

Sangha Department (Republic of the Congo) Populated places in the Republic of the Congo {{RCongo-geo-stub