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    23 hours ago · Etymology and pronunciation The previously separate towns of Buda, Óbuda, and Pest were officially unified in 1873 and given the new name Budapest. Before this, the towns together had sometimes been referred to colloquially as "Pest-Buda". Pest is used pars pro toto for the entire city in contemporary colloquial Hungarian. All varieties of English pronounce the -s- as in the English word pest ...

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    23 hours ago · HDI (2019) 0.577 [5] medium 1st. Kinshasa ( / kɪnˈʃɑːsə /; French: [kinʃasa]; Lingala: Kinsásá ), formerly named Léopoldville until June 30, 1966, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one of the world's fastest ...

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