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Haut-Uélé

Haut-Uélé Province du Haut-Uélé (French) Mkoa wa Wele Juu (Swahili) Wɛlɛ ya Likólo (Lingala)
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Coordinates: 2°46′35.02″N 27°37′4.48″E / 2.7763944°N 27.6179111°E / 2.7763944; 27.6179111
Country	DR Congo
Established	2015
Named for	Uele River
Capital	Isiro
Government
• Governor	Christophe Baseane Nangaa^[1]
Area
• Total	89,683 km² (34,627 sq mi)
• Rank	14th
Population (2020 est.)
• Total	2,242,500
• Rank	17th
• Density	25/km² (65/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (Central Africa Time)
License Plate Code	CGO / 06
Official language	French
National language	Lingala
Website	https://twitter.com/DuUele

Haut-Uélé (French for "Upper Uélé") is one of the 21 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Haut-Uélé, Bas-Uélé, Ituri, and Tshopo provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the former Orientale province.^[2] Haut-Uélé was formed from the Haut-Uélé district whose town of Isiro was elevated to capital city of the new province.

Administration[edit]

The principal communities are Niangara, Dungu, Faradje, Watsa, Rungu, Isiro and Wamba.^[3] The capital of the province is the town of Isiro.^[4]

Territories are

Villages are

^ "Haut-Uélé : les défis du nouveau gouverneur". le Phare online. 23 May 2019. Archived from the original on 26 May 2019. Retrieved 7 July 2019.

^ "Découpage territorial : procédures d'installation de nouvelles provinces". Radio Okapi (in French). 13 July 2015. Archived from the original on 19 July 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2020.

^ Blaes, X. (October 2008). "Découpage administratif de la République Démocratique du Congo" (PDF). PNUD-SIG. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-04-01. Retrieved 2011-12-09.

^ "Provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo". Statiods.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-05. Retrieved 2012-01-24.

v t e Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Current provinces	Bas-Uélé Équateur Haut-Katanga Haut-Lomami Haut-Uélé Ituri Kasaï Kasaï-Central Kasaï-Oriental Kinshasa Kongo Central Kwango Kwilu Lomami Lualaba Mai-Ndombe Maniema Mongala Nord-Ubangi North Kivu Sankuru South Kivu Sud-Ubangi Tanganyika Tshopo Tshuapa
1966–2015	Bandundu Bas-Congo Équateur Kasaï-Occidental Kasaï-Oriental Katanga Kinshasa Maniema North Kivu Orientale South Kivu
1963–1966	Congo Central Cuvette-Centrale Haut-Congo Katanga Oriental Kibali-Ituri Kivu Central Kwango Kwilu Lomami Lualaba Luluabourg Mai-Ndombe Maniema Moyen-Congo Nord-Katanga Nord-Kivu Sankuru South Kasai Ubangi Uele Unité Kasaïenne
1960–1963	Équateur Kasaï Katanga Kinshasa Kivu Léopoldville Orientale

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