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Kinshasa City
Kinshasa

Kinshasa

Kinshasa is the capital of the . It faces , the capital of the neighbouring , which can be seen in the distance across the wide Congo River.
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  • Type: City with 17,000,000 residents
  • Description: capital and the largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Also known as: “Leopoldstad”, “Leopoldville”, and “Léopoldville”
  • Historically known as: “雷堡城”
  • Neighbors:
Photo: Marc Vick, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stade des Martyrs and Kinshasa N’Dolo Airport.

Stadium
Photo: Vberger, Public domain.
The Pentecost Martyrs Stadium, commonly referred to as the and formerly known as Stade Kamanyola, is a national multi-purpose stadium of the , located in .

Aerodrome
Photo: Kakane57, CC BY-SA 3.0.
N'Dolo Airport, also known as Ndolo Airport, is a secondary airport in the city of Kinshasa, , located in the commune of Barumbu near the city center.

Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
, formerly known as Stade 24 Novembre and before Stade Reine Astrid, is a stadium located in Kinshasa, .

Kinshasa

Latitude
-4.3217° or 4° 19′ 18″ south
Longitude
15.3123° or 15° 18′ 44″ east
Population
17,000,000
Elevation
281 metres (922 feet)
IATA airport code
FIH
United Nations Location Code
CD FIH
Open location code
6F7QM8H6+8W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27043346
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2314302
Wiki­data ID
Q3838
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Kinshasa” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Киншаса”
  • Afrikaans: “Kinshasa”
  • Albanian: “Kinsasha”
  • Albanian: “Kinshasa”
  • Amharic: “ኪንሻሳ”
  • Angika: “किन्शासा”
  • Arabic: “كينشاسا”
  • Aragonese: “Kinshasa”
  • Armenian: “Կինշասա”
  • Assamese: “কিনশাচা”
  • Asturian: “Kinsasa”
  • Asturian: “Kinshasa”
  • Asturian: “Kinxasa”
  • Asturian: “Léopoldville”
  • Atayal: “Kinshasa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kinşasa”
  • Balinese: “Kinshasa”
  • Bashkir: “Киншаса”
  • Basque: “Kinshasa”
  • Belarusian: “Кіншаса”
  • Belarusian: “Леапальдвіль”
  • Bengali: “কিনশাসা”
  • Betawi: “Kinsasa”
  • Bosnian: “Kinshasa”
  • Breton: “Kinshasa”
  • Bulgarian: “Киншаса”
  • Burmese: “ကင်ရှာဆာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Kinshasa”
  • Cebuano: “Kinshasa”
  • Central Bikol: “Kinshasa”
  • Central Kanuri: “Kinshasa”
  • Central Kurdish: “کینشاسا”
  • Chechen: “Киншаса”
  • Chinese: “Kinshasa”
  • Chinese: “利奥波德维尔”
  • 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 Tatar: “Kinşasa”
  • Croatian: “Kinshasa”
  • Czech: “Kinshasa”
  • Danish: “Kinshasa”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kinşasa”
  • Dotyali: “किन्शासा”
  • Dutch: “Kinshasa”
  • Dutch: “Leopoldstad”
  • Eastern Mari: “Киншаса”
  • Eastern Mari: “Киншасе”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كينشاسا”
  • Esperanto: “Cìnsansà”
  • Esperanto: “Kinsásá”
  • Esperanto: “Kinsâsa”
  • Esperanto: “Kinŝaso”
  • Esperanto: “Kinshasa”
  • Estonian: “Kinshasa”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kinshasa”
  • Finnish: “Kinshasa”
  • Finnish: “Leopoldville”
  • French: “Kinshasa”
  • French: “Léopoldville”
  • Ga: “Kinshasa”
  • Ga: “Leopoldstad”
  • Ga: “Leopoldville”
  • Ga: “Léopoldville”
  • Galician: “Kinshasa”
  • Galician: “Léopoldville”
  • Georgian: “კინშასა”
  • German: “Kinsásá”
  • German: “Kinshasa”
  • Greek: “Kinshasa”
  • Greek: “Κινσασά”
  • Greek: “Κινσάσα”
  • Guarani: “Kinsasa”
  • Guarani: “Kinshasa”
  • Guarani: “Kĩsása”
  • Gujarati: “કિન્શાસા”
  • Haitian: “Kinchasa”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kinshasa”
  • Hausa: “Kinshasa”
  • Hebrew: “קינשאסה”
  • Hindi: “किन्शासा”
  • Hindi: “किंशासा”
  • Hungarian: “Kinshasa”
  • Icelandic: “Kinsasa”
  • Ido: “Kinshasa”
  • Igbo: “Kinshasa”
  • Iloko: “Kinshasa”
  • Inari Sami: “Kinshasa”
  • Indonesian: “Kinshasa”
  • Ingush: “Киншаса”
  • Interlingua: “Kinshasa”
  • Interlingue: “Kinshasa”
  • Irish: “Cinseasa”
  • Irish: “Kinshasa”
  • Italian: “Kinshasa”
  • Japanese: “キンシャサ”
  • Javanese: “Kinshasa”
  • Kabiyè: “Kinsasa”
  • Kabyle: “Kincasa”
  • Kannada: “ಕಶ್ಯಾಸಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿನ್ಶಾಸಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Киншаса қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Киншаса”
  • Khmer: “គីនសាសា”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Kinshasa”
  • Kirghiz: “Киншаса”
  • Kongo: “Kinsasa”
  • Kongo: “Kinsâsa”
  • Korean: “킨샤사”
  • Kotava: “Kinshasa”
  • Kurdish: “Kînşasa”
  • Latin: “Kinshasa”
  • Latin: “Leopoldopolis”
  • Latvian: “Kinšasa”
  • Lezghian: “Киншаса”
  • Ligurian: “Kinshasa”
  • Lingala: “Kinsásá”
  • Lingala: “Kinshasa”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Kinshasa”
  • Lithuanian: “Kinšasa”
  • Livvi: “Kinšasa”
  • Lombard: “Kinshasa”
  • Low German: “Kinshasa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kinshasa”
  • Macedonian: “Киншаса”
  • Malagasy: “Kinshasa”
  • Malay: “Kinshasa”
  • Malayalam: “കിൻഷസ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯤꯟꯁꯥꯁꯥ”
  • Marathi: “किन्शासा”
  • Mazanderani: “کینشاسا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kinshasa”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kinshasa”
  • Minangkabau: “Kinshasa”
  • Mingrelian: “კინშასა”
  • Moksha: “Киншаса”
  • Mongolian: “Киншаса”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كينشاسا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كينشاصا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ليوپولدڤيل”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ليوپولضڤيل”
  • Navajo: “Teełtah Hahazteel (Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyah)”
  • Navajo: “Teełtah Hahazteel”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kinshasa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kinshasa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Leopoldstad”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Leopoldville”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kinshasa”
  • Norwegian: “Kinshasa”
  • Novial: “Kinshasa”
  • Nyanja: “Kinshasa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kinshasa”
  • Ossetian: “Киншасæ”
  • Ossetian: “Киншаса”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਿਨਸ਼ਾਸਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Kinshasa”
  • Persian: “کینشازا”
  • Persian: “کینشاسا”
  • Piemontese: “Kinshasa”
  • Polish: “Kinszasa”
  • 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”
  • Samogitian: “Kinšasa”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱤᱱᱥᱟᱥᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Kinshasa”
  • Scots: “Kinshasa”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kinshasa”
  • Serbian: “Киншаса”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kinshasa”
  • Shona: “Kinshasa”
  • Sicilian: “Kinshasa”
  • Silesian: “Kinszasa”
  • Sindhi: “ڪنشاسا”
  • Sinhala: “කින්ශාසා”
  • Slovak: “Kinshasa”
  • Slovenian: “Kinšasa”
  • Somali: “Kinshasa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کینشاسا”
  • Spanish: “Kinsasa”
  • Spanish: “Kinshasa”
  • Spanish: “Leopoldville”
  • Swahili: “Kinshasa”
  • Swahili: “Leopoldville”
  • Swedish: “Kinshasa”
  • Swiss German: “Kinshasa”
  • Tagalog: “Kinsasa”
  • Tagalog: “Kinshasa”
  • Tajik: “Киншаса”
  • Talysh: “Kinşasa”
  • Talysh: “Kinšasə”
  • Tamil: “கின்சாசா”
  • Tamil: “கின்ஷாசா”
  • Tamil: “கின்ஷாஸா”
  • Tatar: “Kinşasa”
  • Telugu: “కిన్షాసా”
  • Thai: “กินชาซา”
  • Tibetan: “ཀིན་ཤ་ས།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kinshasa”
  • Turkish: “Kinşasa”
  • Turkish: “Léopoldville”
  • Turkmen: “Kinşasa”
  • Tyap: “Kinshasa”
  • Udmurt: “Киншаса”
  • Uighur: “كىنشاسا”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіншаса”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kinshasa”
  • Urdu: “کنشاسا”
  • Uzbek: “Kinshasa”
  • Venetian: “Kinshasa”
  • Veps: “Kinšas”
  • Vietnamese: “Kinshasa”
  • Volapük: “Kinshasa”
  • Walloon: “Kinchassa”
  • Walloon: “Kinshasa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kinshasa”
  • Welsh: “Kinshasa”
  • Western Frisian: “Kinsjasa”
  • 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: “i-Kinshasa”
  • Zulu: “Kinshasa”
  • “Kinšasa”
  • “Kinshasa”
  • “Kinxasa”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Kinshasa”. Photo: Antoine Moens de Hase, CC BY 2.0.