Orientale (also Oriental) (formerly Haute-Zaire) is a province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It lies in the north-east of the country, and its provincial capital is Kisangani. It borders Equateur province to the west, Kasai-Oriental to the south-west, Maniema to the south, and Nord-Kivu to the south-east. It borders the Central African Republic and Sudan to the north, and Uganda to the east. locator map showing a province of the Democratic Republic of Congo File links The following pages link to this file: Orientale, Congo Categories: GFDL images ... Kisangani, formerly Stanleyville, (population 500,000) is a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa. ... Equateur is a province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. ... Kasai-Oriental is a province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. ... Maniema is a province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. ... Nord-Kivu is a province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. ...
Durba and Watsa are in this province.
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CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/NCIDOD/eid/vol9no12/03-0355-G.htm) "Map of the Democratic Republic of the Congo indicating the neighboring villages of Durba and Watsa, the epicenter of the 1998 outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever."
Orientale (also Oriental) (formerly Haut-Zaire) is a province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Ituri district of Orientale is the scene of the ongoing Ituri conflict.
CDC "Map of the Democratic Republic of the Congo indicating the neighboring villages of Durba and Watsa, the epicenter of the 1998 outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever."
It borders on Angola in the southwest and west, on Cabinda and the Republic of the Congo in the west, on the Central African Republic and Sudan in the north, on Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania in the east, and on Zambia in the southeast.
Congo lies astride the equator, and virtually all of the country is part of the vast Congo River drainage basin.
The Congo’s mineral wealth is the mainstay of the economy, but the development of the mining industry has occurred at the expense of commercial agriculture.
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