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Kisangani is the third largest city in the and is the capital and largest city of the vast Orientale Province in the .
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  • Type: City with 1,180,000 residents
  • Description: city in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Also known as: “Singitini”, “Stanleystad”, and “Stanleyville”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Boyoma Falls.

Waterfall
Photo: AdMeskens, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, formerly known as Stanley Falls, is a series of seven cataracts, each no more than 5 m high, extending over more than 100 km along a curve of the Lualaba River between the river port towns of and Kisangani in the Orientale Province of the .

Kisangani

Latitude
0.5184° or 0° 31′ 6″ north
Longitude
25.2057° or 25° 12′ 21″ east
Population
1,180,000
Elevation
400 metres (1,312 feet)
IATA airport code
FKI
United Nations Location Code
CD FKI
Open location code
6GG7G694+97
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29809156
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
212730
Wiki­data ID
Q146723
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kisangani” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kisangani”
  • Afrikaans: “Stanleystad”
  • Afrikaans: “Stanleyville”
  • Arabic: “كيسانغاني”
  • Armenian: “Կիսանգանի”
  • Asturian: “Kisangani”
  • Basque: “Kisangani Boyoma”
  • Basque: “Kisangani”
  • Basque: “Stanleyville”
  • Belarusian: “Кісангані”
  • Bengali: “কিসানগানি”
  • Breton: “Kisangani”
  • Bulgarian: “Кисангани”
  • Bulgarian: “Стенливил”
  • Catalan: “Kisangani”
  • Catalan: “Stanleyville”
  • Cebuano: “Kisangani”
  • Cebuano: “Ville de Kisangani”
  • Chinese: “基桑加尼”
  • Croatian: “Kisangani”
  • Czech: “Kisangani”
  • Czech: “Stanleyville”
  • Danish: “Kisangani”
  • Danish: “Stanleyville”
  • Dutch: “Kisangani”
  • Dutch: “Stanleystad” (historical)
  • Dutch: “Stanleyville”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيسانجانى”
  • Esperanto: “Kisangani”
  • Estonian: “Kisangani”
  • Estonian: “Stanleyville”
  • Finnish: “Kisangani”
  • Finnish: “Stanleyville”
  • French: “Boyomais”
  • French: “Kisangani Boyoma”
  • French: “Kisangani”
  • French: “Segetini”
  • French: “Stanleystad”
  • French: “Stanleyville” (historical)
  • Georgian: “კისანგანი”
  • German: “Kisangani”
  • German: “Stanleyville”
  • Greek: “Κισανγκάνι”
  • Gujarati: “કિસંગાની”
  • Hausa: “Kisangani”
  • Hebrew: “קיסנגני”
  • Hindi: “किसानगानी”
  • Hungarian: “Kisangani”
  • Indonesian: “Kisangani”
  • Irish: “Kisangani”
  • Italian: “Kisangani”
  • Italian: “Stanleyville”
  • Japanese: “キサンガニ”
  • Japanese: “スタンリーヴィル”
  • Japanese: “スタンリービル”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿಸಾನ್ಗನಿ”
  • Kongo: “Kisangani”
  • Kongo: “Stanleyville”
  • Korean: “키상가니”
  • Latvian: “Kisangani”
  • Lingala: “Boyoma”
  • Lingala: “Kisangani”
  • Lingala: “Kisangáni”
  • Lithuanian: “Kisanganis”
  • Lithuanian: “Stenlivilis”
  • Lombard: “Kisangani”
  • Lombard: “Stanleyville”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kisangani”
  • Luba-Lulua: “Kisangani”
  • Luba-Lulua: “Stanleyville”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kisangani”
  • Luxembourgish: “Stanleyville”
  • Malagasy: “Kisangani”
  • Malay: “Kisangani”
  • Marathi: “किसानगानी”
  • Mingrelian: “კისანგანი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kisangani”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Stanleyville”
  • Norwegian: “Kisangani”
  • Persian: “کیسانگانی”
  • Piemontese: “Kisangani”
  • Polish: “Kisangani”
  • Polish: “Stanleyville”
  • Portuguese: “Kisangani”
  • Portuguese: “Quissangane”
  • Portuguese: “Stanleyville”
  • Romanian: “Kisangani”
  • Russian: “Кисангани”
  • Russian: “Стэнливиль”
  • Scots: “Kisangani”
  • Serbian: “Kisangani”
  • Serbian: “Кисангани”
  • Serbian: “Стенливил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kisangani”
  • Shona: “Kisangani”
  • Sinhala: “කිසංගනී”
  • Slovak: “Kisangani”
  • Slovenian: “Kisangani”
  • Slovenian: “Stanleyville”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیسانقانی”
  • Spanish: “Kisangani”
  • Spanish: “Stanleyville”
  • Swahili: “Kisangani”
  • Swedish: “Kisangani”
  • Swedish: “Stanleyville”
  • Tagalog: “Kisangani”
  • Tamil: “கிசாங்கனி”
  • Telugu: “కిసాన్ గని”
  • Thai: “คิซังกานี”
  • Turkish: “Kisangani”
  • Ukrainian: “Кісангані”
  • Ukrainian: “Стенлівіль”
  • Urdu: “کیسنگانی”
  • Uzbek: “Kisangani”
  • Venetian: “Kisangani”
  • Vietnamese: “Kisangani”
  • Walloon: “Kisangani”
  • Walloon: “Kissangani”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kisangani”
  • Welsh: “Kisangani”
  • Western Armenian: “Քիսանկանի”
  • Wu Chinese: “基桑加尼”
  • Zulu: “Kisangani”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kisangani”. Photo: Kareranathan, CC BY-SA 4.0.