Lingwala
Lingwala is a municipality in the Lukunga district of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is situated in northern Kinshasa, south of Gombe and Boulevard du 30 Juin.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: commune in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Also known as: “Lingwala Territory”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stade des Martyrs and Our Lady of the Congo Cathedral.
Stade des Martyrs
Stadium
Photo: Vberger, Public domain.
The Pentecost Martyrs Stadium, commonly referred to as the Stade des Martyrs and formerly known as Stade Kamanyola, is a national multi-purpose stadium of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located in Lingwala, Kinshasa.
Our Lady of the Congo Cathedral
Cathedral
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Our Lady of the Congo Cathedral, or simply Kinshasa Cathedral, is a religious building of the Catholic Church located on Liberation Avenue in the city of Kinshasa, the capital and largest city of the African country of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Académie des Beaux-Arts
University
The Académie des Beaux-Arts is a school in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The school is devoted to teaching the arts, and was founded in 1943 as the École Saint-Luc à Gombe Matadi by Belgian catholic missionary Marc Wallenda.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kinshasa and Brazzaville.
Kinshasa
Photo: Antoine Moens de Hase, CC BY 2.0.
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.
Brazzaville
Photo: Prével EPOTA, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Brazzaville is the capital of the Republic of Congo, and serves as the financial and administrative center of the country. It can be a pleasant stopover to Pointe Noire or visits to the Congolese rain forests.
Lingwala
- Categories: commune of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and locality
- Location: Kinshasa, Kinshasa City, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-4.32878° or 4° 19′ 44″ southLongitude
15.30042° or 15° 18′ 2″ eastElevation
297 metres (974 feet)Open location code
6F7QM8C2+F5OpenStreetMap ID
node 27043358OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Lingwala” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Lingwala”
- Cebuano: “Lingwala”
- Chinese: “林格瓦拉”
- Chinese: “灵瓦拉”
- Chinese: “玲瓦拉”
- Dutch: “Lingwala”
- French: “Linguala”
- French: “Lingwala”
- French: “Saint-Jean (Kinshasa)”
- Galician: “Lingwala”
- Japanese: “リンガラ”
- Lingala: “Lingwala”
- Portuguese: “Lingwala”
- Swahili: “Lingwala”
- Swedish: “Lingwala”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lingwala”. Photo: Bergeycm, CC BY-SA 3.0.