Kinshasa City
Kinshasa is a commune of the city-province of Kinshasa, located in the Lukunga District in the western part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Situated in the northern section of the capital, the commune covers an area of 2.9 square kilometers and had an estimated population of 453,632 as of 2015.- Commune of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with about 165,000 residents
- Description: commune in the north of the city of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Also known as“Kinshasa”“Kinshasa (commune)”“Kinshasa Federal District”“La Ville de Kinshasa”“Leopoldville”“Leopoldville Federal District”“Ville de Kinshasa”
- Location
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Latitude
-4.375° or 4° 22′ 30″ south
Longitude
15.97° or 15° 58′ 12″ east
Open location code
6F7QJXF9+XX
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Kinshasa City” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ኪንሻሳ”
- Azerbaijani: “Kinşasa”
- Basque: “Kinshasa”
- Belarusian: “Кіншаса”
- Bengali: “কিনশাসা”
- Cebuano: “Kinshasa City”
- Chinese: “金沙萨区”
- Chinese: “金沙萨市区”
- Chinese: “金沙薩區”
- Chinese: “金沙薩市區”
- Dutch: “Kinshasa”
- French: “Commune de Kinshasa”
- French: “Hameau de Kinshasa”
- French: “Kinchassa”
- French: “Kinshasa (commune)”
- French: “Kinshasa”
- German: “Kinshasa”
- Hausa: “Kinshasa”
- Indonesian: “Kinshasa”
- Japanese: “キンシャサ”
- Japanese: “キンシャサ区”
- Javanese: “Kinshasa”
- Kazakh: “Киншаса”
- Kirghiz: “Киншаса”
- Kongo: “Kinsâsa”
- Lingala: “Kinsásá”
- Malay: “Kinshasa”
- Oromo: “Kinshasa”
- Panjabi: “ਕਿਨਸ਼ਾਸਾ”
- Persian: “کینشاسا”
- Portuguese: “Kinshasa”
- Portuguese: “Quinxassa”
- Pushto: “کنشاسا”
- Russian: “Киншаса”
- Slovenian: “Kinšasa”
- Somali: “Kinshasa”
- Spanish: “Kinshasa”
- Swahili: “Kinshasa”
- Tajik: “Киншаса”
- Tatar: “Киншаса”
- Uzbek: “Kinshasa”
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