Sud-Ubangi

Sud-Ubangi
country	Democratic Republic of Congo
Provincial capital	Gemena
National language	Lingála
surface	51,648 km²
population	2,458,000 (2015)
Population density	47.6
ISO 3166-2	CD-SU

Sud-Ubangi (German also Süd-Ubangi ) is a province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with about 2,458,000 inhabitants. The capital of the province is Gemena .

geography

Sud-Ubangi is located in the north-west of the country and borders in the north-east with North-Ubangi , in the south-east with Mongala , in the south with Equateur , in the west with the Republic of the Congo and in the north-west with the Central African Republic . The province lies on the central reaches of the Ubangi River .

history

Sud-Ubangi was a district in the province of Equateur . According to the administrative reform announced in 2005 and canceled in 2011, Equateur was to be divided into five new provinces, including Sud-Ubangi. The administrative reform was postponed several times and canceled in 2011, but finally implemented in 2015 and thus made Sud-Ubangi a province. The previously district-free city of Zongo also merged into Sud-Ubangi.