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.Notable Places in the Area
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. N'Dolo Airport is situated 1½ km east of Kinshasa. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stade des Martyrs de la Pentecôte
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.
Mémorial aux anciens combattants de la Force Publique
Monument
The Force Publique was a gendarmerie and military force in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1885, through the period of Belgian colonial rule. Mémorial aux anciens combattants de la Force Publique is situated 2½ km south of Kinshasa. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Kinshasa
- Location: Western DRC, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
- Population: 11,900,000
- Latitude: -4.3276° or 4° 19' 39.3" south
- Longitude: 15.3136° or 15° 18' 48.9" east
- Elevation: 281 meters (922 feet)
- Neighbors: Brazzaville
- GeoNames ID: 2314302
Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Kinshasa
- Albanian: Kinsasha
- Amharic: ኪንሻሳ
- Arabic: كينشاسا
- Aragonese: Kinshasa
- Armenian: Կինշասա
- Asturian: Kinsasa
- Asturian: Kinxasa
- Azerbaijani: Kinşasa
- Bashkir: Киншаса
- Basque: Kinshasa
- Belarusian: Кіншаса
- Bengali: কিনশাসা
- Bosnian: Kinshasa
- Breton: Kinshasa
- Bulgarian: Киншаса
- Burmese: ကင်ရှာဆာမြို့
- Catalan: Kinshasa
- Cebuano: Kinshasa
- Central Bikol: Kinshasa
- Central Kurdish: کینشاسا
- Chechen: Киншаса
- Chinese: 金夏沙
- Chinese: 金沙薩
- Cornish: Kinshasa
- Corsican: Kinshasa
- Croatian: Kinshasa
- Czech: Kinshasa
- Danish: Kinshasa
- Dimli (individual language): Kinşasa
- Dotyali: किन्शासा
- Dutch: Kinshasa
- Eastern Mari: Киншаса
- Eastern Mari: Киншасе
- Egyptian Arabic: كينشاسا
- Esperanto: Kinŝaso
- Estonian: Kinshasa
- Fiji Hindi: Kinshasa
- Finnish: Kinshasa
- French: Kinshasa
- Galician: Kinshasa
- Georgian: კინშასა
- German: Kinshasa
- Greek: Κινσάσα
- Greek: Κινσασά
- Gujarati: કિન્શાસા
- Haitian: Kinchasa
- Hakka Chinese: Kinshasa
- Hausa: Kinshasa
- Hebrew: קינשאסה
- Hindi: किन्शासा
- Hungarian: Kinshasa
- Icelandic: Kinsasa
- Ido: Kinshasa
- Iloko: Kinshasa
- Indonesian: Kinshasa
- Ingush: Киншаса
- Interlingue: Kinshasa
- Irish: Kinshasa
- Italian: Kinshasa
- Japanese: キンシャサ
- Javanese: Kinshasa
- Kabiyè: Kinsasa
- Kabyle: Kincasa
- Kannada: ಕಶ್ಯಾಸಾ
- Kazakh: Киншаса
- Kinyarwanda: Kinshasa
- Kirghiz: Киншаса
- Kongo: Kinsasa
- Korean: 킨샤사
- Kurdish: Kînşasa
- Latin: Kinshasa
- Latvian: Kinšasa
- Lezghian: Киншаса
- Ligurian: 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
- Marathi: किन्शासा
- Min Dong Chinese: Kinshasa
- Min Nan Chinese: Kinshasa
- Mingrelian: კინშასა
- Mongolian: Киншаса
- Northern Frisian: Kinshasa
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kinshasa
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kinshasa
- Novial: Kinshasa
- Nyanja: Kinshasa
- Occitan (post 1500): Kinshasa
- Ossetian: Киншаса
- Panjabi: ਕਿਨਸ਼ਾਸਾ
- Persian: کینشاسا
- Piemontese: Kinshasa
- Polish: Kinszasa
- Portuguese: Kinshasa
- Portuguese: Quinxassa
- Pushto: کینشاسا
- Quechua: Kinshasa
- Romanian: Kinshasa
- Russia Buriat: Киншаса
- Russian: Киншаса
- Rusyn: Кіншаса
- Samogitian: Kinšasa
- 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
- Swahili: Kinshasa
- Swedish: Kinshasa
- Swiss German: Kinshasa
- Tagalog: Kinsasa
- Tagalog: Kinshasa
- Tajik: Киншаса
- Tamil: கின்ஷாசா
- Tatar: Kinşasa
- Telugu: కిన్షాసా
- Thai: กินชาซา
- Tibetan: ཀིན་ཤ་ས།
- Turkish: Kinşasa
- Turkmen: Kinşasa
- Udmurt: Киншаса
- Ukrainian: Кіншаса
- Upper Sorbian: Kinshasa
- Urdu: کنشاسا
- Uzbek: Kinshasa
- Venetian: Kinshasa
- Veps: Kinšas
- Vietnamese: Kinshasa
- Walloon: Kinchassa
- Walloon: Kinshasa
- Waray (Philippines): Kinshasa
- Welsh: Kinshasa
- Western Frisian: Kinsjasa
- Western Mari: Киншаса
- Western Panjabi: کنشاسہ
- Wolof: Kinshasa
- Wu Chinese: 金沙薩
- Yakut: Киншаса
- Yiddish: קינשאזע
- Yoruba: Kinshasa
- Yue Chinese: 金沙薩
- Zhuang: Kinshasa
- CDFIH
- FIH
- Leopoldstad
- Léopoldville
In the Area
Localities
- LingwalaTown
- MatongeNeighborhood, 1½ km south
- MatongeSuburb, 1½ km south
- Quartier FunaLocality, 2 km east
- BarumbuTown, 2 km northeast
- Bon-MarchéLocality, 2 km northeast
Notable Places
- Orange Data CenterOffice
- Christ's Ambassadors MissionPlace of worship
- Painting room Auto Mukubwa PatrickPost office
- Université protestante du CongoUniversity, 2 km west
- Cathédrale du Centenaire protestantChurch, 2 km southwest
- Université catholique du CongoUniversity, 2 km southeast
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