Orientals
| Orientals | |
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| country |
 Democratic Republic of Congo
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| Provincial capital | Kisangani |
| governor | Lola Kisanga |
| National language | Kiswahili , Lingala |
| surface | 503,239 km² |
| population | 5,566,000 (1998) |
| Population density | 11.0 |
| ISO 3166-2 | CD-OR |
Orientale ( French "east", "east") was a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the capital Kisangani .
geography
The province was in the north-east of the country and bordered in the north-west with the Central African Republic , in the north-east with South Sudan , in the east with Uganda , in the south with the provinces of North Kivu , Maniema and Kasaï-Oriental and in the west with the province of Equateur .
history
The province was created during the Belgian colonial period. From 1933 to 1947 it was called Stanleyville (French) or Stanleystad ( Dutch ) (today's Kisangani) after its capital . In 1962, Orientale was dissolved and divided into the provinces of Haut-Congo (Upper Congo) , Kibali-Ituri and Uele . Four years later (1966) the province was restored and renamed Haut-Zaire (Upper Zaire) in 1971. With the end of the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997, the province was renamed like the Republic of Zaïre. First again in Haut-Congo and within the same year it was given the name Orientale.
Dissolution in 2015
With the adoption of a new constitution in May 2005 , the Congo was to be reorganized. After the date of the administrative change had previously been postponed several times, President Joseph Kabila reversed it completely in January 2011. However, the administrative change was implemented in 2015 and Orientale was divided into four new provinces, which largely corresponded to the previous districts of Orientales:
- Bas-Uele with the capital Buta
- Haut-Uele with the capital Isiro
- Ituri with the capital Bunia
- Tshopo with the capital Kisangani