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Provincial capital and city in Kasai-Oriental, Democratic Republic of the Congo · East Kasai

Mbuji-Mayi

Mbuji-Mayi is a city and the capital of Kasai-Oriental Province in the south-central Democratic Republic of Congo.

Mbuji-Mayi
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The place

Mbuji-Mayi is a city and the capital of Kasai-Oriental Province in the south-central Democratic Republic of Congo. It is thought to be the second largest city in the country, after the capital Kinshasa and ahead of Lubumbashi, Kisangani and Kananga, though its exact population is not known. Estimates range from a 2010 CIA World Factbook estimated population of 1,480,000 to as many as 3,500,000 estimated by the United Nations in 2008.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mbuji-Mayi

One place 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.

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    Université de Mbuji Mayi

    The University of Mbuji Mayi is an accredited private university in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located in the province of Kasai-Oriental, city of Mbuji Mayi. The university is one of the many initiatives by the "Fondation Cardinal Malula".

    1.4 km · university in the DRC · Wikipedia

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Getting to Mbuji-Mayi

Stations
Mbuji Mayi Airport, 3.5 km
  • Lubumbashi → Mbuji-Mayi
    748 km · quickest by road, 18h 18m · $85–115
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  • Kisangani → Mbuji-Mayi
    761 km · quickest by road, 31h 16m · $110–150
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  • Goma → Mbuji-Mayi
    798 km · quickest by road, 21h 46m · $95–135
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mbuji-Mayi

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 Mbuji-Mayi. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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