Gbadolite

Gbadolite
Provincial capital and city
Ville de Gbadolite
Aerial view of the town
Gbadolite Location in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Coordinates: 4°17′N 21°01′E / 4.283°N 21.017°E / 4.283; 21.017
Country	DR Congo
Province	Nord-Ubangi
Zone (territoire) de Gbadolite	December 8, 1972[1]
Cité de Gbadolite	March 25, 1982[1]
Ville de Gbadolite	January 10, 1987[1]
Government
• Mayor	André-Teddy Kapalata[2]
Area [1]
• Total	278 km2 (107 sq mi)
Elevation	462 m (1,516 ft)
Population  (2015 estimate)[3]
• Total	198,839
• Density	720/km2 (1,900/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (WAT)
Climate	Am

Gbadolite or Gbado-Lite (pronounced [ɡ͡badolite]) is the capital of Nord-Ubangi Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The town is located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) south of the Ubangi River at the border to the Central African Republic and 1,150 kilometres (710 mi) northeast of the national capital Kinshasa. Gbadolite was the ancestral home and residence of Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, later self-styled as Mobutu Sese Seko where airport, colleges, malls, supermarkets and libraries were built by the President in a program of modernization. Gbadolite is where Mobutu led the summit that would produce the Gbadolite Declaration, a short lived ceasefire in the Angolan Civil War, in 1989.