Watsa

Watsa is a settlement in Haut-Uele Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The country's census tables compiled by City Population list it with 15,120 inhabitants at the census of 1 July 1984 and an estimated 27,308 inhabitants on 1 July 2004, and GeoNames, which places it at latitude 3.03716 and longitude 29.53551, carries a newer population figure of 47,278 for the surrounding settlement. According to the digital elevation model GeoNames uses, the site stands about 1018 metres above sea level, and it keeps Central Africa Time (UTC+2). Watsa is not a provincial capital, so it appears in the census tables as one of the country's smaller towns rather than as the seat of a province. The atlas places it in the Middle Africa subregion of Africa and treats it as a city for browsing purposes.