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Kinshasa (/ k ɪ n ˈ ʃ ɑː s ə /; French:; Lingala: Kinsásá), formerly named Léopoldville until 30 June 1966, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kinshasa is one of the world's fastest-growing megacities, with an estimated population, in 2024, of 17,032,322. [6]
The Democratic Republic of the Congo [b] (DRC), also known as DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply Congo, is a country in Central Africa. By land area the country is the second-largest country in Africa and the 11th-largest in the world.
In 1965 Mobutu Sese Seko seized power in the Congo in his second coup and initiated a policy of "Africanizing" the names of people and places in the country. In 1966, Léopoldville was renamed Kinshasa for a village named Kinchassa that once stood near the site. The city developed as the bureaucratic and cultural capital of the country, and ...
The Republic of the Congo (French: République du Congo) was a sovereign state in Central Africa, created with the independence of the Belgian Congo in 1960. From 1960 to 1966, the country was also known as Congo-Léopoldville (after its capital) to distinguish it from its northwestern neighbor, which is also called the Republic of the Congo ...
Congo, a 1980 novel by Michael Crichton Congo, a 1995 film based on the novel; Congo (chess variant), using a 7×7 gameboard; Congo, a 1995 pinball machine; Congo, a 2001 nature documentary; Congo – A Political Tragedy, a 2018 documentary film; Congo: The Epic History of a People, a 2010 book by David van Reybrouck
Kinshasa–Brazzaville is a transborder agglomeration comprising Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Brazzaville, ...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is: an equatorial megadiverse country; Location: Eastern Hemisphere, on the Equator; Africa. Central Africa; Middle Africa; Time zones: West Africa Time ; Central Africa Time ; Extreme points of the Democratic Republic of the Congo High: Margherita Peak 5,109 m (16,762 ft) Low: South Atlantic Ocean 0 m
Kinshasa is a municipality in the Lukunga district of the city of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [2] It is situated in the north of the city, south of Gombe and the Boulevard du 30 Juin.