Buta (city)

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Buta
Buta (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Buta
Buta
Coordinates 2 ° 48 '  N , 24 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 2 ° 48 '  N , 24 ° 44'  E
Basic data
Country Democratic Republic of Congo

province

Bas-Uele
ISO 3166-2 CD-BU
Residents 48,000 (2006)

Buta is the capital of the Bas-Uele Province in the north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo .

It lies on a branch line of the Bumba - Mungbere railway line between Aketi and Isiro . It can also be reached by road and air (airfield). It has 48,000 or 125,428 inhabitants, depending on the source. In 2005 the city was ravaged by the plague .

The city has also been the seat of the Catholic diocese of Buta since 1959 .

swell

  1. ↑ Brockhaus - The Encyclopedia: in 30 volumes. 21st, revised edition. Leipzig, Mannheim: FA Brockhaus 2006.
  2. ↑ 2004, after Monographie de la Province Orientale
  3. ↑ news networld: Pulmonary plague broke out in the Congo . In: news.at . February 23, 2005 ( news.at [accessed November 3, 2017]).
"Catholic procession of a mission in the equatorial jungle, between Buta and Stanleyville". Photo Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1941/42)