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.
Notable Places in the Area
Kinshasa N'Dolo Airport
Aerodrome
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. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stade des Martyrs
Stadium
The Stade des Martyrs de la Pentecôte, also known as simply the Stade des Martyrs and formerly known as Stade Kamanyola, is a national stadium located in the town of Lingwala in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo: Vberger, Public domain.
Stade Cardinal Malula
Stadium
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. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Kinshasa General Hospital
Hospital
Kinshasa General Hospital is a hospital in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
- Type: City
- Description: capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Categories: capital, first-level administrative country subdivision, border town, million city and locality
- Location: Western DRC, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
- Neighbors: Brazzaville
Kinshasa
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 27043346GeoNames ID
2314302Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Kincasa
- Afrikaans: Kinshasa
- Albanian: Kinsasha
- Albanian: Kinshasa
- Amharic: ኪንሻሳ
- Arabic: Kinshasa
- Arabic: كينشاسا
- Aragonese: Kinshasa
- Armenian: Կինշասա
- Asturian; Bable: Kinsasa
- Asturian; Bable: Kinshasa
- Asturian; Bable: Kinxasa
- Asturian; Bable: Léopoldville
- Avaric: Kinshasa
- Azerbaijani: Kinşasa
- Bashkir: Киншаса
- Basque: Kinshasa
- Belarusian: Кіншаса
- Belarusian: Леапальдвіль
- Bengali: কিনশাসা
- Bosnian: Kinshasa
- Breton: Kinshasa
- Bulgarian: Киншаса
- Burmese: ကင်ရှာဆာမြို့
- Catalan: Kinshasa
- Cebuano: Kinshasa
- Central Bicolano: Kinshasa
- Central Kurdish: کینشاسا
- Chechen: Киншаса
- Chichewa; Nyanja: Kinshasa
- 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 Turkish; Crimean Tatar: Kinşasa
- Croatian: Kinshasa
- Czech: Kinshasa
- Danish: Kinshasa
- Dimli: Kinşasa
- Dutch: Kinshasa
- Dutch: Leopoldstad
- Eastern Mari: Киншаса
- Eastern Mari: Киншасе
- Egyptian Spoken Arabic: كينشاسا
- English: Leopoldstad
- English: Leopoldville
- English: Léopoldville
- Esperanto: Kinshasa
- Esperanto: Kinŝaso
- Estonian: Kinshasa
- Fijian Hindustani: Kinshasa
- Finnish: Kinshasa
- French: Kinshasa
- French: Léopoldville
- Frisian: Kinsjasa
- Gaelic (Scots): Kinshasa
- Gallegan: Kinshasa
- Georgian: კინშასა
- German: Kinshasa
- Greek: Kinshasa
- Greek: Κινσάσα
- Greek: Κινσασά
- Gujarati: કિન્શાસા
- Haitian; Haitian Creole: 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 (International Auxiliary Language Association): Kinshasa
- Interlingue: Kinshasa
- Irish: Kinshasa
- Italian: Kinshasa
- Japanese: キンシャサ
- Javanese: Kinshasa
- Kabiyé: Kinsasa
- Kabyle: Kincasa
- Kannada: ಕಶ್ಯಾಸಾ
- Kannada: ಕಿನ್ಶಾಸಾ
- Kazakh: Киншаса
- Kazakh: Киншаса қаласы
- Kinyarwanda: Kinshasa
- Kirghiz: Киншаса
- Kongo: Kinsasa
- Korean: 킨샤사
- Kurdish: Kînşasa
- Lao: Kinshasa
- Latin: Kinshasa
- Latin: Leopoldopolis
- Latvian: Kinšasa
- Letzeburgesch: Kinshasa
- Lezghian: Киншаса
- Ligurian: Kinshasa
- Lingala: Kinshasa
- Lingala: Kinsásá
- Lithuanian: Kinšasa
- Livvi: Kinšasa
- Lombard: Kinshasa
- Low German; Low Saxon: Kinshasa
- Macedonian: Киншаса
- Malagasy: Kinshasa
- Malay (generic): Kinshasa
- Malayalam: കിൻഷസ
- Manipuri: ꯀꯤꯟꯁꯥꯁꯥ
- Marathi: किन्शासा
- Min Dong Chinese: Kinshasa
- Min Nan Chinese: Kinshasa
- Mingrelian: კინშასა
- Moksha: Киншаса
- Mongolian: Киншаса
- Mongolian: ꯀꯤꯟꯁꯥꯁꯥ
- Moroccan Spoken Arabic: كينشاسا
- Northern Frisian: Kinshasa
- Norwegian: Kinshasa
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kinshasa
- Norwegian Bokmål: Leopoldstad
- Norwegian Bokmål: Leopoldville
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kinshasa
- Novial: Kinshasa
- Occitan (post 1500); Provençal: Kinshasa
- Ossetian; Ossetic: Киншасæ
- Ossetian; Ossetic: Киншаса
- Panjabi: ਕਿਨਸ਼ਾਸਾ
- Persian: کینشازا
- Persian: کینشاسا
- Piemontese: Kinshasa
- Polish: Kinszasa
- Portuguese: Categoria:Kinshasa
- 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
- Santali: ᱠᱤᱱᱥᱟᱥᱟ
- Sardinian: Kinshasa
- Schwyzerdütsch: Kinshasa
- Scots: Kinshasa
- Serbian: Киншаса
- Serbo-Croatian: Kinshasa
- Shona: Kinshasa
- Sicilian: Kinshasa
- Sinhalese: කින්ශාසා
- Slovak: Kinshasa
- Slovenian: Kinšasa
- Somali: Kinshasa
- Sorbian, Upper: Kinshasa
- South Azerbaijani: کینشاسا
- Spanish: Kinsasa
- Spanish: Kinshasa
- Spanish: Leopoldville
- Swahili (generic): Kinshasa
- Swedish: Kinshasa
- Tagalog: Kinsasa
- Tagalog: Kinshasa
- Tajik: Киншаса
- Tamil: கின்ஷாசா
- Tamil: கின்ஷாஸா
- Tatar: Kinşasa
- Telugu: కిన్షాసా
- Thai: กินชาซา
- Tibetan: ཀིན་ཤ་ས།
- Tosk Albanian: Kinshasa
- Turkish: Kinşasa
- Turkish: Léopoldville
- Turkmen: Kinşasa
- Udmurt: Киншаса
- Ukrainian: Кіншаса
- Urdu: کنشاسا
- Uzbek: Kinshasa
- Venetian: Kinshasa
- Veps: Kinšas
- Vietnamese: Kinshasa
- Volapük: Kinshasa
- Walloon: Kinchassa
- Walloon: Kinshasa
- Waray (Philippines): Kinshasa
- Welsh: Kinshasa
- 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
- 雷堡城
Other Places Named Kinshasa
In the Area
Localities
- LingwalaTown
- BarumbuTown
- Bon-MarchéLocality
- MatongeSuburb
Landmarks
- Maison Communale de KinshasaGovernment office
- MongitaTheater
- Paroisse Saint PierreChurch
- ACK Kalembelembe Voici l'hommeChurch
Popular Destinations in DR Congo
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