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Provincial capital and city in Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Bunia

Bunia is the capital city of Ituri Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Bunia
Bunia · Wikimedia Commons (see file page)
The place

Bunia is the capital city of Ituri Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It was part of the Orientale Province until that province's dissolution.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bunia

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Bunia

    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bunia ) is a diocese located in the city of Bunia in the ecclesiastical province of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was established on 10 November 1959.

    900 m · diocese of the Catholic Church · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Shalom University of Bunia

    Shalom University of Bunia, also known as USB, is a private Christian university located in the city of Bunia, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. With an enrolment of over 1100 students for the 2019–2020 academic year, it is one of the largest universities in the city of Bunia, along with Bunia University.

    1.6 km · private university in the DRC · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Université de Bunia

    The University of Bunia is a public higher education institution located in the city of Bunia, in the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

    1.4 km · university in the DRC · Wikipedia

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Getting to Bunia

Airports
Entebbe (EBB), 297 km
Stations
Bunia Airport, 3.7 km
  • Goma → Bunia
    377 km · quickest by road, 9h 54m · $44–60
  • Kisangani → Bunia
    575 km · quickest by road, 20h 58m · $55–75
  • Entebbe → Bunia
    299 km · quickest by road, 11h 51m · USh61,200–81,600
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bunia

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bunia. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    297 km
  2. 02
    EntebbeUG

    9 ways of moving, 37 sources

    298 km
  3. 03
    Ssese IslandsUG

    11 ways of moving, 14 sources

    314 km
  4. 04
    Diani BeachKE

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,225 km
  5. 05
    LamuKE

    9 ways of moving, 27 sources

    1,261 km

If you know how people move in Bunia – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.