Businga is a town in

Nord-Ubangi Province Nord-Ubangi (French for "North Ubangi") is one of the 21 newest provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Nord-Ubangi, Équateur, Mongala, Sud-Ubangi, and Tshuapa provinces are the result of the disme ...

of north-western

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ...

. It is the administrative center of the territory of the same name. In 2009 it had an estimated population of 32,584.

Topography

Businga is located on the

Mongala River The Mongala River () in the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo is a right tributary of the Congo River. Course The Mongala River is long, or long if the Ebola tributary is included. It is formed by the confluence of the Dwa River and t ...

, approximately 120 miles northeast of its confluence with the

Congo River The Congo River, formerly also known as the Zaire River, is the second-longest river in Africa, shorter only than the Nile, as well as the third-largest river in the world list of rivers by discharge, by discharge volume, following the Amazon Ri ...

. 6 miles further to the east, the Mongala River bifurcates into the

Ebola River The Ebola River ( or ), also commonly known by its Ngbandi name Legbala, is the headstream of the Mongala River, a tributary of the Congo River, in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is roughly in length. The name ''Ebola'' is a Fre ...

to the north – the namesake of the deadly

Ebola virus ''Orthoebolavirus zairense'' or Zaire ebolavirus, more commonly known as Ebola virus (; EBOV), is one of six known species within the genus ''Ebolavirus''. Four of the six known ebolaviruses, including EBOV, cause a severe and often fatal vira ...

References

Populated places in Nord-Ubangi Communes of the Democratic Republic of the Congo {{DRC-geo-stub