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Mbuji-Mayi River

The 883rd longest river in the world

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The Mbuji-Mayi River, also spelt Bushmaie, Bushimaie, Bushimay or Mbushimaie, (Swahili: Mto Mbuji-Maji) is a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a major tributary of the Sankuru River. It flows northwards from the Kapanga Territory in the province of Lualaba to the province of Kasaï-Oriental, where it is the namesake of the city of Mbuji-Mayi. The Upper Mbuji-Mayi is called the Nkalany River, and was were the Lunda Empire originated.

Flows through: Democratic Republic of the Congo.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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