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Kinshasa (/ kɪnˈʃɑːsə /; French: [kinʃasa]; Lingala: Kinsásá), formerly named Léopoldville until 30 June 1966, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one of the world's fastest-growing megacities.
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With a population of around 109 million, the Democratic...
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With a population of around 109 million, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most populous Francophone country in the world. The national capital and largest city is Kinshasa, which is also the economic center. The country is bordered by the Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania ...
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From the 16th to 17th century, the Pool region became an important hub between the river and coastal areas. Vegetables of the Americas were also introduced to the interior of the continent through trade; slaves (most often the losers in various conflicts) were travelling to Loango, the mouth of the river and south of the Kongo Kingdom. The Bobangis...
AIC and Congo Free State, 1881–1908
Henry Morton Stanley established a trading post on a hill close to the shore of Ngaliema Bay in 1881 some distance to the west of the modern-day city centre. Stanley named the settlement Léopoldville (French) or Leopoldstad (Dutch) in honour of King Leopold II who was the patron of the International Association of the Congo (Association internationale du Congo, AIC) and later King-Sovereign of the Congo Free State. Stanley delegated the settlement to his British subordinate Anthony Swinburne....
Belgian Congo, 1908–1960
Léopoldville began to undergo major expansion around the year 1910, with the creation of a geometric city plan and the construction of new buildings including the Banque du Congo Belge and the Hotel A.B.C. (owned by the Compagnie Commerciale et Agricole d'Alimentation du Bas-Congo.) Schools were constructed and a Chamber of Commerce formed. The 1920s also saw the beginning of regular airplane service to Elisabethville (modern-day Lubumbashi) operated by the Belgian airline Sabena. The African...
When the Belgian Congo became independent of Belgium in 1960, Dutch was dropped as an official language and so was the alternative name Leopoldstad. The city grew rapidly (11.6% annually from 1960 to 1967; 6.43% annually from 1967 to 1973), drawing people from across the country who came in search of their fortunes or to escape ethnic strife elsewh...
On May 20, 1997, after the First Congo War, Laurent-Désiré Kabila triumphantly marched with his rebel forces to take control of the country's capital after Mobutu fled into exile in France. However, the city was later nearly taken over by other rebels backed by Uganda and Rwanda during the earlier part of the Second Congo War. It was very recently ...
Bibliography
1. Pain, Marc (1984). Kinshasa : la ville et la cité. Paris: Editions de l'ORSTOM. ISBN 2-7099-0728-3. 2. La Fontaine, J. S. (1970). City Politics: A Study of Léopoldville, 1962-63 (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521088848. 3. Kapagama, Pascal; Waterhouse, Rachel (2009). "Portrait of Kinshasa: A City on (the) Edge". Crisis States Research Centre working papers series(2). 4. Freund, Bill (2009). "The Congolese Elite and the Fragmented City: The Struggle for the Emerg...
3 days ago · Geography and history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with maps, statistics, and a survey of its people, economy, and government. The country, located in central Africa, has a 25-mile (40-km) coastline on the Atlantic Ocean but is otherwise landlocked. The capital of the country is Kinshasa.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (French: République démocratique du Congo), commonly referred to as DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa or the DRC, is a country in central Africa. It was known as Zaïre from 1971 to 1997.
4 days ago · Kinshasa, largest city and capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It lies about 320 miles (515 km) from the Atlantic Ocean on the south bank of the Congo River. One of the largest cities of sub-Saharan Africa, it is a special political unit equivalent to a Congolese region, with its own governor.
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Kinshasa is the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (once called Zaire). It is the third largest city in the continent of Africa (after Lagos and Cairo). [1] . About eleven million people live there. Kinshasa is also a province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
