Kisangani

American  

[ki-zahng-gah-nee, kee-sahng-gah-] / kɪˈzɑŋ gɑ ni, ˌki sɑŋˈgɑ- /

noun

1. a city in the northern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the Congo (Zaire) River.

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Kisangani British  

/ ˌkɪsæŋˈɡɑːnɪ /

noun

1. Former name (until 1966): Stanleyville.  a city in the N Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaïre), at the head of navigation of the River Congo below Boyoma Falls (Stanley Falls): Université Libre du Congo (1963). Pop: 475 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

Kisangani is a large city in north-central Tshopo province where no Ebola infections have currently been recorded.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

But the case involved a "person coming from Kisangani", a major city in the eastern Tshopo province where no Ebola infections from the current outbreak have so far been recorded.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

“The poverty is not in itself the problem, it’s the misery,” Kisangani Archbishop Marcel Utembi, president of the Congolese conference of bishops, said in an interview last year.

From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2023

The wide, diesel-chugging baleinières are how many people get from Kinshasa to towns and cities upstream, like Mbandaka, and Kisangani, the last navigable port on the Congo River.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2022

All the old injuries have been renamed: Kinshasa, Kisangani.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver