Kisangani

city in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Summary

Kisangani is an official city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo[1]. Kisangani ranks in the top 8% of official city of the democratic republic of the congo entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,877 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Tshopo[3]
  • Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo[4]
  • Instance of: big city[5]
  • Commons category: Kisangani[6]
  • Located in time zone: UTC+02:00[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Kisangani[8]
  • Commons gallery: Kisangani[9]
  • Population: 935,977[10], 1,366,000[11]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[12], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[13]
  • Capital of: Tshopo[14]
  • Category for people born here: Q18664786[15]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Kisangani[16]
  • Elevation above sea level: 447 m[17]
  • Area: 1910 km²[18]
  • History of topic: timeline of Kisangani[19]

Why It Matters

Kisangani has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] Kisangani is known by 36 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . fr.wikipedia.org. fr.wikipedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → UTC+02:00
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48043|batch #48043]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  2. 11w ago · WikiLucas00 · 2026-08-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Pronunciation audio → LL-Q36217 (lin)-Durkheim IKEISALI-Kisangáni.wav
    Official name → ['Кисангани', 'Стэнливиль']
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Pronunciation audio: LL-Q36217 (lin)-Durkheim IKEISALI-Kisangáni.wav"
  3. 16w ago · Андрей Жизлов · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official name → ['Кисангани', 'Стэнливиль']
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Official name: Кисангани"
  4. 20w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → Democratic Republic of the Congo
    Instance of → —
    Population → —
    Located in time zone → UTC+02:00
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||tg, en-us */ import labels from sitelinks; cleanup"
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