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An 1895 sketch map showing the settlements around Stanley Pool (modern-day Pool Malebo) including the location of Léopoldville on the western bank of modern-day Ngaliema Bay as well as the village at Kinshasa. Brazzaville is also shown on the far bank of the Congo River.
A map of Kinshasa presenting its Communes. Kinshasa is both a city (ville in French) and a province, one of the 26 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Nevertheless, it has city subdivisions and is divided into 24 communes (municipalities), which in turn are divided into 369 quarters and 21 embedded groupings. [66]
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Mobutu with the Dutch Prince Bernhard in Kinshasa in 1973. In a campaign to identify himself with African nationalism, starting on 1 June 1966, Mobutu renamed the nation's cities: Léopoldville became Kinshasa (the country was known as Congo-Kinshasa), Stanleyville became Kisangani, Elisabethville became Lubumbashi, and Coquilhatville became ...
The National Museum of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (French: Musée national de la République démocratique du Congo, or MNRDC) is a museum for the cultural history of the numerous ethnic groups and historical epochs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the capital Kinshasa.
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 .
Pages in category "History of Kinshasa" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Topographic map of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Mount Stanley on the border with Uganda. The geology of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC or Congo-Kinshasa, formerly Zaire and Belgian Congo) is extremely old, on the order of several billion years for many rocks.