Uélé Province is a former province of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ...
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It was formed in 1963 from part of
Orientale Province
Orientale 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 changes between 1898 and 2015, when it was divided ...
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In 1966 it was merged back into the reconstituted Orientale Province.
It roughly corresponds to the modern provinces of
Bas-Uélé and
Haut-Uélé.
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:
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Former provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (pre-1966)