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Orientale (former administrative division) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 02 30 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 2.5000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 027 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 27.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: After the nation's independence it was a political base for Patrice Lumumba who attempted to install a government at Kisangani (then Stanleyville) with Antoine Gizenga; control reestablished by the central government in 1962. Dissolved in 2015. |
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| Orientale (preferred,C,V,English)
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............ | former name was reinstated in 1998 |
| Orientale, Province (C,V,display)
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| Province Orientale (C,U,O,French)
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| Eastern Province (C,U,English)
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| Oost Provincie (C,U,Dutch)
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| Province de Stanleyville (C,U,French)
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| Région du Haut-Zaïre (C,U,French)
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| Stanleyville (C,U)
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| Stanleyville Province (C,U)
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| Haut-Congo (C,U,French)
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| Orientale Province (C,U,English)
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| Provincia Orientale (C,U,Italian)
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| Haut-Zaïre (H,V)
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| Upper Zaire (H,V)
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| Zaïre Supérieure (H,V)
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Orientale (former administrative division) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| former administrative division (preferred, C) |
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| province (H) |
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| first level subdivision (H) |
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