The Ngando people (or Bongando, Ngandu) are Bantu subsistence farmers who live in eastern part of Équateur and the western part of Orientale province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Ethnologue reports that the Ngando live in the Maringa River area, north of Ikela, and had a population of 220,000 in 1995.
They raise goats, pigs, chickens, and ducks, and supplement their diet through hunting, fishing, and gathering.
However, due to economic stress from political disorders followed by civil wars in the 1992-2005 period and to social and cultural interchanges with other ethnic groups, this perception has changed.
The Bongando have a patrilineal lineage system, and wives come to live near their husband's family.