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  1. en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki › KinshasaKinshasa - Wikipedia

    Kinshasa (/ k ɪ n ˈ ʃ ɑː s ə /; French:; 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-growing megacities.

  2. 6 days ago · Kinshasa, largest city and capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It lies about 320 miles (515 km) from the Atlantic Ocean on the south bank of the Congo River. One of the largest cities of sub-Saharan Africa, it is a special political unit equivalent to a Congolese region, with its own.

  3. baike.baidu.com › item › 金沙萨金沙萨_百度百科

    金沙萨(法语:Kinshasa),人口约1000万,系刚果(金)第一大城市和全国政治、经济、文化中心,是刚果民主共和国的首都和最大河港,也是中部非洲的最大城市。

  4. 金沙薩 (法語: Kinshasa , 发音: [kinʃasa] ; 林格拉語 : Kinsásá ),也譯 金夏沙 ,原名 利奧波德維爾 或 利奧波德城 (法語: Léopoldville , 荷蘭語 : Leopoldstad ),是 剛果民主共和國 的 首都 和最大城市,也是最大的法語國家城市。. 城市位于 刚果河 畔 ...

  5. Sub-Saharan Africa's second-largest city, Kin (as locals universally call it) sprawls seemingly forever from the banks of the Congo River to its distant shanty towns. Shot through with chaos, music and a lust for life that is as infectious as it is overwhelming, Kinshasa is a city you experience rather than visit, but there's no better place ...

  6. Kinshasa (; 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-growing megacities.

  7. Kinshasa has the largest population of any city proper in Africa with a population of almost 15 million (2020), and ranks as its third largest metropolitan area after Cairo and Lagos. It is also declares itself as the largest French-speaking city in the world, you will find that most people's French is far less than fluent (by any other measure ...

  8. www.wikiwand.com › en › KinshasaKinshasa - Wikiwand

    Kinshasa, 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-growing megacities. Kinshasa's 2024 population was estimated at 17,032,322.

  9. Kinshasa , formerly Léopoldville, Capital and largest city (pop., 2005 est.: 5,717,000), Democratic Republic of the Congo. Situated on the southern bank of the Congo River, it was founded as Léopoldville in 1881 by Henry Morton Stanley. It became the capital of the Belgian Congo in the 1920s.

  10. www.worldatlas.com › cities › kinshasaKinshasa - WorldAtlas

    Sep 7, 2021 · Kinshasa is the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It is located on the Congo River, directly opposite Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, making the area the only place in which two capital cities are situated on opposite banks of the same river, so close to each other that they are in sight of each other.

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