Kisangani is the capital of Tshopo Province, located on the Congo River in the eastern part of the central Congo Basin in the Democratic Republ…Kisangani is the capital of Tshopo Province, located on the Congo River in the eastern part of the central Congo Basin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the country's fifth most populous urban area, with an estimated population of 1,602,144 as of 2018, and the largest of the cities in the tropical woodlands of the Congo.