Kimpese
Kimpese is a town in the Cataractes District of Kongo Central province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It lies on the main road and railway between Kinshasa and the provincial capital Matadi, at an altitude of 990 ft above sea level.
- Type: Town with 79,500 residents
- Description: place in Bas-Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Historically known as: “Kimpesse”
Kimpese
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Bangu, Bas-Congo Province, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-5.5618° or 5° 33′ 43″ south
Longitude
14.4288° or 14° 25′ 44″ east
Population
79,500
Elevation
326 metres (1,070 feet)
Open location code
6F6PCCQH+7G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Kimpese” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيمبيزي”
- Asturian: “Kimpese”
- Cebuano: “Kimpese”
- Chinese: “金佩塞”
- Dutch: “Kimpese”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيمبيزى”
- Esperanto: “Kimpese”
- French: “Kimpese”
- Galician: “Kimpese”
- Georgian: “კიმპესე”
- Italian: “Kimpese”
- Mingrelian: “კიმპესე”
- Polish: “Kimpese”
- Portuguese: “Kimpese”
- Romanian: “Kimpese”
- Russian: “Кимпесе”
- Swahili: “Kimpese”
- Swedish: “Kimpese”
- Ukrainian: “Кімпесе”
- Zulu: “Kimpese”
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