Welcome to Gbadolite!
Gbadolite is a city of almost 200,000 (2015) in Congo Basin. Gbadolite or Gbado-Lite (pronounced) is the capital of Nord-Ubangi Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The town is located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) south of the Ubangi River at the border with the Central African Republic and 1,150 kilometers (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 airports, colleges, malls, supermarkets, and libraries were built by the President in a program of modernization.