Kinshasa
Kinshasa is the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It faces Brazzaville, the capital of the neighbouring Republic of the Congo, which can be seen in the distance across the wide Congo River.Photo: Garcia-Pavilion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Antoine Moens de Hase, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: City with 9,050,000 residents
- Description: capital and the largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Neighbors: Brazzaville
Notable Places in the Area
Stade des Martyrs
Photo: Vberger, Public domain.
The Stade des Martyrs de la Pentecôte, or simply the Stade des Martyrs, is the national stadium of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located in the Kinshasa commune of the capital Kinshasa.
Kinshasa N'Dolo Airport
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
N'Dolo Airport, also known as Ndolo Airport, is a secondary airport in the city of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, located in the commune of Barumbu near the city center.
Stade Cardinal Malula
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Stade Cardinal Malula, formerly known as Stade 24 Novembre and before Stade Reine Astrid, is a stadium located in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Kinshasa
- Categories: first-level administrative division, border town, million city and locality
- Location: Kinshasa, Kinshasa City, Western DRC, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-4.3217° or 4° 19' 18" southLongitude
15.3126° or 15° 18' 45" eastPopulation
9,050,000Elevation
281 metres (922 feet)IATA airport code
FIHUnited Nations Location Code
CD FIHOpen Location Code
6F7QM8H7+82OpenStreetMap ID
node 27043346OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2314302Wikidata ID
Q3838Kinshasa Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Kincasa
- Abkhazian: Киншаса
- Afrikaans: Kinshasa
- Albanian: Kinsasha
- Albanian: Kinshasa
- Amharic: ኪንሻሳ
- Angika: किन्शासा
- Arabic: Kinshasa
- Arabic: كينشاسا
- Aragonese: Kinshasa
- Armenian: Կինշասա
- Asturian: Kinsasa
- Asturian: Kinshasa
- Asturian: Kinxasa
- Asturian: Léopoldville
- Avaric: Kinshasa
- Azerbaijani: Kinşasa
- Balinese: Kinshasa
- Bashkir: Киншаса
- Basque: Kinshasa
- Belarusian: Кіншаса
- Belarusian: Леапальдвіль
- Bengali: কিনশাসা
- Bosnian: Kinshasa
- Breton: Kinshasa
- Bulgarian: Киншаса
- Burmese: ကင်ရှာဆာမြို့
- Catalan: Kinshasa
- Cebuano: Kinshasa
- Central Bikol: Kinshasa
- Central Kurdish: کینشاسا
- Chechen: Киншаса
- Chinese: Kinshasa
- Chinese: 金夏沙
- Chinese: 金沙萨/金沙薩
- Chinese: 金沙萨
- Chinese: 金沙薩
- Cornish: Kinshasa
- Corsican: Kinshasa
- Corsican: Leopoldstad
- Corsican: Léopoldville
- Crimean Tatar: Kinşasa
- Croatian: Kinshasa
- Czech: Kinshasa
- Danish: Kinshasa
- Dimli (individual language): Kinşasa
- Dotyali: किन्शासा
- Dutch: Kinshasa
- Dutch: Leopoldstad
- Eastern Mari: Киншаса
- Eastern Mari: Киншасе
- Egyptian Arabic: كينشاسا
- English: Leopoldstad
- English: Leopoldville
- English: Léopoldville
- Esperanto: Kinshasa
- Esperanto: Kinŝaso
- Estonian: Kinshasa
- Fiji Hindi: Kinshasa
- Finnish: Kinshasa
- Finnish: Leopoldville
- French: Kinshasa
- French: Léopoldville
- Galician: Kinshasa
- Georgian: კინშასა
- German: Kinshasa
- Greek: Kinshasa
- Greek: Κινσάσα
- Greek: Κινσασά
- Gujarati: કિન્શાસા
- Haitian: Kinchasa
- Hakka Chinese: Kinshasa
- Hausa: Kinshasa
- Hebrew: קינשאסה
- Hindi: किंशासा
- Hindi: किन्शासा
- Hungarian: Kinshasa
- Icelandic: Kinsasa
- Ido: Kinshasa
- Igbo: Kinshasa
- Iloko: Kinshasa
- Inari Sami: Kinshasa
- Indonesian: Kinshasa
- Ingush: Киншаса
- Interlingua: Kinshasa
- Interlingue: Kinshasa
- Irish: Kinshasa
- Italian: Kinshasa
- Japanese: キンシャサ
- Javanese: Kinshasa
- Kabiyè: Kinsasa
- Kabyle: Kincasa
- Kannada: ಕಶ್ಯಾಸಾ
- Kannada: ಕಿನ್ಶಾಸಾ
- Kazakh: Киншаса
- Kazakh: Киншаса қаласы
- Kinyarwanda: Kinshasa
- Kirghiz: Киншаса
- Kongo: Kinsasa
- Korean: 킨샤사
- Kotava: Kinshasa
- Kurdish: Kînşasa
- Lao: Kinshasa
- Latin: Kinshasa
- Latin: Leopoldopolis
- Latvian: Kinšasa
- Lezghian: Киншаса
- Ligurian: Kinshasa
- Lingala: Kinshasa
- Lingala: Kinsásá
- Lingua Franca Nova: Kinshasa
- Lithuanian: Kinšasa
- Livvi: Kinšasa
- Lombard: Kinshasa
- Low German: Kinshasa
- Luxembourgish: Kinshasa
- Macedonian: Киншаса
- Malagasy: Kinshasa
- Malay: Kinshasa
- Malayalam: കിൻഷസ
- Manipuri: ꯀꯤꯟꯁꯥꯁꯥ
- Marathi: किन्शासा
- Mazanderani: کینشاسا
- Min Dong Chinese: Kinshasa
- Min Nan Chinese: Kinshasa
- Mingrelian: კინშასა
- Moksha: Киншаса
- Mongolian: Киншаса
- Mongolian: ꯀꯤꯟꯁꯥꯁꯥ
- Moroccan Arabic: كينشاسا
- Navajo: Teełtah Hahazteel (Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyah)
- Navajo: Teełtah Hahazteel
- Northern Frisian: Kinshasa
- Norwegian: Kinshasa
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kinshasa
- Norwegian Bokmål: Leopoldstad
- Norwegian Bokmål: Leopoldville
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kinshasa
- Novial: Kinshasa
- Nyanja: Kinshasa
- Occitan (post 1500): Kinshasa
- Ossetian: Киншасæ
- Ossetian: Киншаса
- Panjabi: ਕਿਨਸ਼ਾਸਾ
- Papiamento: Kinshasa
- Persian: کینشازا
- Persian: کینشاسا
- Piemontese: Kinshasa
- Polish: Kinszasa
- Portuguese: Kinshasa
- Portuguese: Léopoldivile
- Portuguese: Léopoldville
- Portuguese: Quinxasa
- Portuguese: Quinxassa
- Pushto: کینشاسا
- Quechua: Kinshasa
- Romanian: Kinshasa
- Russia Buriat: Киншаса
- Russian: Киншаса
- Russian: Леопольдвиль
- Rusyn: Кіншаса
- Samogitian: Kinšasa
- Santali: ᱠᱤᱱᱥᱟᱥᱟ
- Sardinian: Kinshasa
- Scots: Kinshasa
- Scottish Gaelic: Kinshasa
- Serbian: Киншаса
- Serbo-Croatian: Kinshasa
- Shona: Kinshasa
- Sicilian: Kinshasa
- Silesian: Kinszasa
- Sinhala: කින්ශාසා
- Slovak: Kinshasa
- Slovenian: Kinšasa
- Somali: Kinshasa
- South Azerbaijani: کینشاسا
- Spanish: Kinsasa
- Spanish: Kinshasa
- Spanish: Leopoldville
- Swahili: Kinshasa
- Swedish: Kinshasa
- Swiss German: Kinshasa
- Tagalog: Kinsasa
- Tagalog: Kinshasa
- Tajik: Киншаса
- Talysh: Kinşasa
- Tamil: கின்சாசா
- Tamil: கின்ஷாசா
- Tamil: கின்ஷாஸா
- Tatar: Kinşasa
- Telugu: కిన్షాసా
- Thai: กินชาซา
- Tibetan: ཀིན་ཤ་ས།
- Tosk Albanian: Kinshasa
- Turkish: Kinşasa
- Turkish: Léopoldville
- Turkmen: Kinşasa
- Tyap: Kinshasa
- Udmurt: Киншаса
- Uighur: كىنشاسا
- Ukrainian: Кіншаса
- Upper Sorbian: Kinshasa
- Urdu: کنشاسا
- Uzbek: Kinshasa
- Venetian: Kinshasa
- Veps: Kinšas
- Vietnamese: Kinshasa
- Volapük: Kinshasa
- Walloon: Kinchassa
- Walloon: Kinshasa
- Waray (Philippines): Kinshasa
- Welsh: Kinshasa
- Western Frisian: Kinsjasa
- Western Mari: Киншаса
- Western Panjabi: کنشاسا
- Western Panjabi: کنشاسہ
- Wolof: Kinshasa
- Wu Chinese: 金沙薩
- Yakut: Киншаса
- Yiddish: קינשאזע
- Yoruba: Kinshasa
- Yue Chinese: 金沙薩
- Zhuang: Kinshasa
- Zulu: Kinshasa
- Historic: 雷堡城
Other Places Named Kinshasa
In the Area
- Bon-MarchéLocality
- MatongeNeighbourhood
- MatongeSuburb
- NdoloLocality
- Quartier FunaLocality
- GombeTown
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