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Kinshasa
capital and the largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo having the status of a province
Details
- Instance of
- first-level administrative division, border city, megacity, largest city, primate city, national capital
- Inception
- 1881
- Country
- Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zaire, Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville), Belgian Congo, Congo Free State
- Continent
- Africa
- Capital of
- Democratic Republic of the Congo, Belgian Congo, Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville), Zaire, Democratic Republic of the Congo (1965–1971), Leopoldville Province
- Founded by
- Henry Morton Stanley
- Population
- 1600, 40300, 35900, 42000, 126100, 299800, 402500, 901520, 1052500, 1323039, 1990700, 2443900
- Area
- 9965
- Elevation
- 240 m
- category for maps or plans
- Category:Maps of Kinshasa
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Kinshasa
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Kinshasa
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kinshasa
- contains the administrative territorial entity
- Bandalungwa, Barumbu, Bumbu, Gombe, Kalamu, Kasa-Vubu, Kimbanseke, Kinshasa (commune), Kintambo, Kisenso, Lemba, Limete
- demonym
- Kinŝasano, Kinois, Kinoise
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5, New International Encyclopedia
- different from
- Kinshasa (commune), Leopoldville Province
- geography of topic
- geography of Kinshasa
- has part(s) of the class
- commune of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- hashtag
- Kinshasa
- history of topic
- timeline of Kinshasa history
- language used
- Lingala, Swahili, Luba-Kasai, Kongo, East Teke, Mfinu, Kituba (Democratic Republic of Congo)
- legislative body
- Provincial Assembly of Kinshasa
- local dialing code
- 0987-, 1
- located in or next to body of water
- River Congo
- member of
- Creative Cities Network
- named after
- Leopold II of Belgium
- native label
- Kinshasa
- office held by the head of government
- governor
- official name
- Léopoldville, Kinshasa, Leopoldstad, Kinshasa, Киншаса
- replaces
- Leopoldville Province
- shares border with
- Kongo Central, Brazzaville, Mai-Ndombe Province, Kwilu, Kwango Province, Pool Department
- topic's main category
- Category:Kinshasa
- twinned administrative body
- Dakar, Brazzaville, Brussels metropolitan area, Tehran, Utrecht, Ankara, Incheon
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