Mobayi-Mbongo
Sign in to savethumb|left|The best dancer on the Ubangi at Banzyville, 1906 thumb|left|Bananas being brought by children into Banzyville, 1906 Mobayi-Mbongo, formerly known as Banzyville or Banzystad, is a town in Nord-Ubangi Province, in the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the Ubangi River. It lies opposite the Central African town of Mobaye. It is the administrative center of the territory of the same name. As of 2012 the estimated population was 5,640.
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Place details
- Locality
- Mobayi-Mbongo
- Region
- Nord-Ubangi
- Country
- République démocratique du Congo
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Mobayi-Mbongo
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Commune
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Nord-Ubangi
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Territory
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Mobayi-Mbongo
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_total
- 5640
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2012
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone
- WAT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
- Settlement.blank_name_sec1
- National language
- Settlement.blank_info_sec1
- Lingala
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- border city
- Located in
- Nord-Ubangi
- Area
- 105475
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- Mobayi-Mbongo
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thumb|left|The best dancer on the Ubangi at Banzyville, 1906 thumb|left|Bananas being brought by children into Banzyville, 1906 Mobayi-Mbongo, formerly known as Banzyville or Banzystad, is a town in Nord-Ubangi Province, in the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the Ubangi River. It lies opposite the Central African town of Mobaye. It is the administrative center of the territory of the same name. As of 2012 the estimated population was 5,640.
A small hydroelectric power station was opened in 1989, with some of the power being exported to the CAR.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mobayi-Mbongo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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