Orientale Province
Orientale (also Oriental; formerly Haut-Zaïre, then Haut-Congo) is one of the ten provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The province lies in the northeast of the country. It borders Équateur to the west, Kasaï-Oriental province to the southwest, Maniema to the south, and North Kivu to the southeast. It also borders the Central African Republic and South Sudan to the north, and Uganda to the east. The provincial capital is Kisangani.
The province is divided into the Bas-Uele, Haut-Uele and Tshopo districts and the Ituri Interim Administration. Under the 2006 constitution, these were supposed to become provinces in 2009.
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