Provincial capital and city in Équateur Province, DR Congo

Mbandaka

Mbandaka is a city in the Democratic Republic of Congo located near the confluence of the Congo and Ruki rivers.

Every way there

Bangui → Mbandaka
481 km · quickest by road, 51h 23m · $125–170
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Brazzaville → Mbandaka
583 km · quickest by road, 50h 39m · $125–175
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Kinshasa → Mbandaka
586 km · quickest by road, 40h 47m · $95–130
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Mbandaka, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Mbandaka has

NScheduled flightsnearest airport BGF is 485 km away
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Bolenge, 7 km.

0.048°, 18.256°

It is the capital of Équateur Province.

Get in

Getting to Mbandaka

Mbandaka Airport. By boat through the river as it links Mbandaka to Kinshasa and Boende.

See

Worth seeing

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Botanic Garden of Eala
One of the finest botanical gardens of central Africa is at nearby Eala, about 7 km east of the town centre.

Eat

Where to eat

Restaurant de la Bralima.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: MONUSCO Photos (CC BY-SA 2.0), Wikimedia Commons.