Kinshasa Ville de Kinshasa   Ville-province (City-province)   Kinshasa with Congo river in background Flag Seal Nickname(s): Kin la belle (English: Kin the beautiful) DRC highlighting the city-province of Kinshasa Kinshasa DRC highlighting the city-province of Kinshasa Coordinates: 41930S 151920E / 4.325S 15.32222E / -4.325; 15.32222Coordinates: 41930S 151920E / 4.325S 15.32222E / -4.325; 15.32222 Country  Democratic Republic of the Congo Province Kinshasa Administrative HQ La Gombe Communes List Bandalungwa Barumbu Bumbu La Gombe Kalamu Kasa-Vubu Kimbanseke Kinsenso Kinshasa Kintambo Lemba Limete Lingwala Makala Maluku Masina Matete Mont Ngafula NDjili Ngaba Ngaliema Ngiri-Ngiri Nsele Selembao Government  - Governor Andr Kimbuta Yango Area1  - City-province 9965 km2 (3847.5 sq mi) Elevation 240 m (787 ft) Population (2009)1  - City-province 10076099  - Density 1011.1/km2 (2618.9/sq mi)  - Language French Website kinshasa.cd

Kinshasa (formerly French: Lopoldville and Dutch: Leopoldstad (helpinfo)) is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The city is located on the Congo River.

Once a site of fishing villages Kinshasa is now an urban area with a population of 10076099 inhabitants in 2009. The city of Brazzaville (about 1.2 million inhabitants in 2007 with its suburbs)2 capital of the Republic of the Congo lies just across the Congo River from Kinshasa. Together with Brazzaville the combined conurbation of Kinshasa-Brazzaville has thus nearly 12 million inhabitantsmaking it the most populous transborder metropolitan area in the world. Because the administrative boundaries cover such a vast area over 60% of the city's land is rural in nature and the urban area only occupies a small section in the far western end of the province.34

Kinshasa holds the status of the second largest city in sub-Saharan Africa and the third largest in the whole continent after Lagos and Cairo. Although it has no significant native French speaking population it is often considered the second largest officially francophone city in the world after Paris inasmuch as French is the language of government and commerce and is used as a lingua franca. If current demographic trends continue Kinshasa will surpass Paris in population before 2020.56

Residents of Kinshasa are known as Kinois (French) or Kinshasans (English). Contents 1 History 2 Administration 2.1 Administrative divisions 3 Geography 4 Climate 5 Buildings and institutions 5.1 Industries 5.2 Crime 5.3 Street children 5.4 Education 5.5 Medicine 6 Media 7 Language 8 Transport 8.1 Internal transport 8.1.1 Rail 8.2 External transport 9 Conservation 9.1 Lola ya Bonobo 10 Kinshasans 11 Sister cities 12 See also 13 References 14 External links 14.1 Maps History This section does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (November 2009) Main article: History of Kinshasa The La Gombe district off the Boulevard du 30 Juin in Kinshasa.

The city was founded as a trading post by Henry Morton Stanley in 1881 and named Lopoldville in honor of King Leopold II of Belgium who controlled the vast territory that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo not as a colony but as a private property. The post flourished as the first navigable port on the Congo River above Livingstone Falls a series of rapids over 300 kilometres (190 mi) below Leopoldville. At first all goods arriving by sea or being sent by sea had to be carried by porters between Lopoldville and Matadi the port below the rapids and 150 km (93 mi) from the coast. The completion of the Matadi-Kinshasa portage railway in 1898 provided a faster and more efficient alternative route around the rapids and sparked the rapid development of Lopoldville. By 1920 the city was elevated to capital of the Belgian Congo replacing the town of Boma in the Congo estuary.

In 1965 Mobutu Sese Seko seized power in the Congo in his second coup and initiated a policy of "Africanizing" the names of people and places in the country. In 1966 Lopoldville was renamed Kinshasa for a village named Kinchassa that once stood near the site. The city grew rapidly under Mobutu drawing people from across the country who came in search of their fortunes or to escape ethnic strife elsewhere. This inevitably brought about a change to the city's ethnic and linguistic composition as well. Although it is situated in territory that traditionally belongs to the Bateke and Bahumbu people the lingua franca in Kinshasa today is Lingala.

In 1974 Kinshasa hosted the 'Rumble in the Jungle' boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in which Ali defeated Foreman to regain the World Heavyweight title.

Kinshasa suffered greatly due to Mobutu's excesses mass corruption nepotism and the civil war that led to his downfall. Nevertheless it is still a major cultural and intellectual center for Central Africa with a flourishing community of musicians and artists. It is also the country's major industrial center processing many of the natural products brought from the interior. The city has recently had to fend off rioting soldiers who were protesting the government's failure to pay them.

Kinshasa had the earliest documented HIV-1 infection which dates from 1959 and was discovered in the preserved blood sample of a local man (see AIDS origin). Administration Kinshasa is both a city (ville in French) and a province (province in French) one of the 11 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its status is thus similar to Paris which is both a city and one of the 101 departments of France. Administrative divisions Main article: Communes of Kinshasa The city-commune (ville-province) of Kinshasa is divided 4 district which are further divided into 24 communes (municipalities).4 The commercial and administrative heart of Kinshasa is the commune of La Gombe. The commune of Kinshasa gave its name to the whole city but it is neither the commercial nor the administrative heart of the metropolis. Districts and Communes of Kinshasa Funa District Lukunga District Mont Amba District Tshangu District Bandalungwa Barumbu Kisenso Kimbanseke Bumbu Gombe Lemba Maluku Kalamu Kinshasa Limete Masina Kasa-Vubu Kintambo Matete NDjili Makala Lingwala Ngaba NSele Ngiri-Ngiri Mont-Ngafula Selembao Ngaliema The 24 communes of Kinshasa Brazzaville Congo River Pool Malebo Ngaliema Bay La Gombe Barumbu Kin. Ling. K.-V. Ng.-Ng. Kal. Banda- lungwa Kintambo Ngaliema Selembao Bumbu Makala Ngaba Lemba Limete Matete Kinsenso Masina Ndjili Kimbanseke Nsele Mont Ngafula Nsele Maluku Abbreviations : Kal. (Kalamu) Kin. (Kinshasa) K.-V. (Kasa-Vubu) Ling. (Lingwala) Ng.-Ng. (Ngiri-Ngiri) Geography Kinshasa is a city of sharp contrasts with affluent residential and commercial areas and three universities coexisting side by side with sprawling slums. It is located along the south bank of the Congo River directly opposite the city of Brazzaville capital of the Republic of the Congo. This is the only place in the world where two national capital cities are facing one another and in sight of each other on opposite banks of a river. The Congo river is the second longest river in Africa after the Nile and is the largest in terms of discharge. As a waterway it provides a means of transport for much of the Congo basin being navigable for large river barges between Kinshasa and Kisangani and many of its tributaries are navigable too. The river is an important source of hydroelectric power and downstream of Kinshasa it has the potential to generate power equivalent to the usage of roughly half of Africa's population.7 Climate Under the Koppen climate classification Kinshasa has a Tropical wet and dry climate. It features a lengthy rainy season which spans from October through May and a relatively short dry season which runs between June and September. Due to fact that Kinshasa lies south of the equator its dry season begins around its "winter" solstice which is in June. This is in contrast to African cities further north featuring this climate where the dry season typically begins around January. Kinshasa's dry season is slightly cooler than its wet season though temperatures remain relatively constant throughout the year. Climate data for Kinshasa Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Record high C (F) 36 (97) 36 (97) 36 (97) 36 (97) 35 (95) 34 (93) 32 (90) 35 (95) 36 (97) 36 (97) 34 (93) 36 (97) 36 (97) Average high C (F) 31 (88) 31 (88) 32 (90) 32 (90) 31 (88) 29 (84) 27 (81) 29 (84) 31 (88) 31 (88) 31 (88) 30 (86) 30 (86) Average low C (F) 21 (70) 22 (72) 22 (72) 22 (72) 22 (72) 19 (66) 18 (64) 18 (64) 20 (68) 21 (70) 22 (72) 21 (70) 21 (70) Record low C (F) 18 (64) 18 (64) 18 (64) 19 (66) 18 (64) 15 (59) 14 (57) 14 (57) 16 (61) 15 (59) 17 (63) 17 (63) 14 (57) Precipitation mm (inches) 135 (5.31) 145 (5.71) 196 (7.72) 196 (7.72) 159 (6.26) 8 (0.31) 3 (0.12) 3 (0.12) 30 (1.18) 119 (4.69) 222 (8.74) 142 (5.59) 1358 (53.46) Avg. rainy days 11 11 12 16 12 1 0 1 5 11 16 15 111 Sunshine hours 124 140 155 150 155 120 124 155 120 155 150 124 1672 Source: BBC Weather8 Buildings and institutions Major areas of the city include the Cit de l'OUA home to the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo quartier Matonge known regionally for its nightlife L'ONATRA the impressive building of the Ministry of Transport and the residential area of Gombe. Notable features of the city include the SOZACOM Building and Hotel Memling skyscrapers the central market the Kinshasa Museum and the Kinshasa Fine Arts Academy. The Boulevard du 30 Juin (Boulevard of the 30 June) links the main areas of the city. Kinshasa is home to the country's national stadium the Stade des Martyrs (Stadium of the Martyrs). Industries Marsavco Sarl Biggest FMCG Manufacturing Company located in center of town (Gombe) in Kinshasa. There are many other industries such as Nova Products CongoFuture AngelCosmetics Cobra Ghandour Industries Congo Shalina Group Beltexco Graphics System Femco Sajico and BCDC Bank Trust Merchant Bank located in the heart of the city area. Crime In 2004 Kinshasa was rated as one of Africa's most dangerous cities in terms of crime. Since the Second Congo War the city has been striving to recover from disorder with many gangs hailing from Kinshasa's slums. Muggings robberies rape kidnapping and gang violence are common.9 Kinshasas homicide rate is estimated to be as high as 112 homicides per 100000.10 Street children Street children1112 often orphaned are subject to abuse by the police and military. Of the estimated 20000 children up to the age of eighteen living rough in Kinshasa's street almost a quarter are beggars some are street vendors and about a third have some kind of employment.13 Some are there as fallout from the times of war others are accused of witchcraft14 and have become outcasts.151617 Police regularly round up street children to an uncertain fate; there are recorded incidents of children being shot dead by police for minor misdemeanours.18 Education The University of Kinshasa Kinshasa is home to several higher-level education institutes covering a wide range of specialities from civil engineering to nursing and journalism. The city is also home to three large universities and an arts school: Prins van Luik School / Lyce Prince de Lige University of Kinshasa Congo Protestant University National Pedagogy University Allhadeff School Centre for Health Training (CEFA)19 Medicine There are twenty hospitals in Kinshasa plus various medical centres and polyclinics.20 In 1997 Dikembe Mutombo built a 300-bed hospital near his home town of Kinshasa. Since 1991 Monkole Hospital is working as a non-for profit health institution collaborating with the Health Department as district hospital in Kinshasa. Directed by Dr Lon Tshilolo paediatrician and haematologist Monkole Hospital is opening a new 150-bed building in 2011 with improved clinical services as laboratory diagnostic radiology intensive care neonatal unit family medicine emergencies unit and a larger surgical area. Media Kinshasa is home to a large number of media outlets including multiple radio and television stations that broadcast to nearly the entire country including state-run Radio-Television Nationale Congolaise (RTNC) and privately-run Digital Congo and Raga TV. The private channel RTGA is also based in Kinshasa. Several national radio stations including La Voix du Congo which is operated by RTNC MONUC-backed Radio Okapi and Raga FM are based in Kinshasa as well as numerous local stations. The BBC is also available in Kinshasa on 92.6 FM.21 The state-controlled Agence Congolaise de Pressenews agency is based in Kinshasa as well as several daily and weekly newspapers and news websites including L'Observateur- daily L'Avenir- daily Phare Le Potentiel and Le Soft.22 Most of the media uses French and Lingala to a large extent; very few use the other national languages. Language The official language of The Democratic Republic of the Congo of which Kinshasa is the capital is French. Kinshasa is the second largest officially Francophone city in the world23 24 although Lingala is widely used as a spoken language. French is the language of street signs posters newspapers government documents schools; it dominates plays television and the press and it is used in vertical relationships among people of uneven rank; people of equal rank however speak the Congolese languages (Kikongo Lingala Tshiluba or Swahili) among themselves.25 Thus while the culture is dominated by the Francophonie a complex multi-lingualism is present in Kinshasa. Transport The Boulevard du 30 Juin in downtown Kinshasa. The boulevard Lumumba in Masina. Internal transport Several private companies whose Urban Transport Company (STUC) and the Public City train (12 cars in 2002) serves the city. The bus lines are: Gare centrale Kingasani (municipality of Kimbanseke reopened in September 2005); Kingasani March central Matete Royale (reopened in June 2006); MateteUPN (reopened in June 2006); Rond-point Ngaba UPN (reopened in June 2006). Rond-point Victoire clinique Ngliema (opened in March 2007) Other companies also provide public transport: Urbaco Tshatu Trans Socogetra Gesac and MB Sprl. The city bus carries a maximum of 67000 passengers per day. Several companies operate taxis and taxi-buses. The majority (95.8%) of transport is provided by individuals. The city is considering the creation of a tramway in collaboration with public transport in Brussels (STIB) whose work could start in 2009 and would be completed around 20122015. The issue of electricity remains suspended.2627 Rail The ONATRA operates three lines of urban railways linking the town centre device which goes to Bas-Congo.28 The main line linking the Central Station to the Kinshasa International Airport has 9 stations: Central Station Ndolo Amicongo Uzam Masina / Petro-Congo Masina wireless Masina / Mapela Masina / Neighborhood III Masina / Siforco Camp Badara and Ndjili airport. The second line connects the Central Station in Kasangulu in Bas-Congo through Matete Riflart and Kimwenza. The third line at the Central Station Kinsuka-pumping in the town of Ngaliema. In 2007 the internal rail network is being renovated with the help of Belgium.29 This would serve Kintambo Ndolo Limete Lemba Kasangulu Gombe Ndjili and Masina. External transport Kinshasa is the major river port of the Congo. The port called 'Le Beach Ngobila' extends for about 7 km (4 mi) along the river comprising scores of quays and jetties with hundreds of boats and barges tied up. Ferries cross the river to Brazzaville a distance of about 4 km (2 mi). River transport also connects to dozens of ports upstream such as Kisangani and Bangui. There are road and rail links to Matadi the sea port in the Congo estuary 150 km (93 mi) from the Atlantic Ocean. There are no rail links from Kinshasa further inland and road connections to much of the rest of the country are few and in poor condition. The city has two airports: N'Djili International Airport with connections to other African countries as well as to Beirut Brussels and Paris and some other destinations. N'Dolo Airport located close to the city center is used for domestic flights only with small turboprop aircraft. Conservation Lola ya Bonobo Founded by Claudine Andre in 1994 Lola ya Bonobo is the world's only sanctuary for orphaned bonobos.30 Since 2002 the sanctuary has been located at Les Petites Chutes de la Lukaya just outside of Kinshasa Lola ya Bonobo means 'paradise for bonobos' in Lingala the main language of Kinshasa. In 2008 Lola ya Bonobo is home to 60 bonobos who live in 30 hectares of primary forest. Although the bonobos are captive they live in an environment similar to the wild. They can forage among dozens of edible plants and fruiting trees compete for mating opportunities and learn to avoid dangers such as stepping on venomous snakes just as they would in the wild. As a result the bonobos at Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary living in their forested microcosm show all the naturally occurring behaviors observed in wild bonobos (in fact they actually display some behaviors such as tool use that have not been observed in the wild). The sanctuary protects wild bonobos because it allows for the enforcement of domestic and international conservation laws aimed at preventing the trade in live bonobos. The sanctuary also acts as a mouth piece for conservation efforts in DRC by educating thousands of Congolese visitors each year about the value of Congo's natural history in particular the bonobo their unique Congolese inheritance. Kinshasans D. J. Mbenga professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers in the US National Basketball Association. Christian Eyenga professional basketball player and 2009 first round draft choice for the Cleveland Cavaliers in the US National Basketball Association. Dikembe Mutombo retired professional basketball player and the 2nd most prolific shot blocker of all-time in the National Basketball Association second only to Hakeem Olajuwon. Jimmy Omonga singer-songwriter. Ya Kid K hip-hop artist. Guylain Ndumbu-Nsungu former Sheffield Wednesday football player. Leki R&B artist. Claude Makll professional football player for Paris Saint-Germain in the French Ligue 1. Steve Mandanda professional footballer who plays for Marseille and the France national football team. Ariza Makukula naturalized Portuguese professional football player for Kayserispor in the Turkish Sper Lig on loan from Sport Lisboa e Benfica of the Portuguese Liga. Jos Bosingwa naturalized Portuguese football player for Chelsea of the Premier League in England. Andr Action Diakit Jackson or Mze Fula-Ngenge diamond mogul. Leroy Lita professional football player for Middlesbrough in the Football League Championship. Fabrice Muamba professional football player player for Bolton Wanderers in the Premier League. Odette Krempin fashion designer. Tim Biakabutuka former professional American football player. Kaysha hip-hop artist. Kazenga LuaLuaprofessional football player for Newcastle United. Lomana LuaLua professional football player for Al-Arabi in Qatar. Mwamba Kazadi former professional football player player who won the 1973 "African Footballer of the Year" award. Peguy Luyindula professional football player player for Paris Saint-Germain in the Ligue 1. Hrita Ilunga professional football player player for West Ham United in the Premier League. Gary Kikaya Olympic 400 metre runner Steve Zakuani professional football player player for the Seattle Sounders of Major League Soccer in The United States. Gabriel Zakuani professional football player for Peterborough United of The Football League in England. Patrick Kabongo professional football player for the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League. Merveille Lukeba professional actor for the series Skins on E4 Blaise Nkufo professional footballer for Switzerland Danny Mwanga professional footballer for the Philadelphia Union Mohombi Pop Hip Hop artist Youssouf Mulumbu professional footballer for West Bromwich Albion Sister cities Bologna (Italy) starts soon Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo) Brussels (Belgium) since 2002 Dakar (Senegal) Ankara (Turkey) See also Democratic Republic of the Congo portal List of Governors of Kinshasa List of television stations in Kinshasa References a b (French) "Monographie de la Ville de Kinshasa" (SWF). Unit de Pilotage du Processus d'Elaboration et de mise uvre de la Stratgie pour la Rduction de la Pauvret (UPPE-SRP). http://www.dsrp-rdc.org/documents/MonographiesProvinciales/Monographie%20de%20la%20Province%20de%20Kinshasa.swf. Retrieved 19 January 2007.  (French) "Congo (Brazzaville)". United States Department of State. http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2825.htm. 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Retrieved 15 December 2010.  "Africa South of the Sahara: Selected internet resources Democratic Republic of the Congo Newspapers Kinshasa Newspapers". University of Stanford Library. http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/congok/congoknews.html. Retrieved 15 December 2010.  Nadeau Jean-Benoit (2006). The Story of French. St. Martin's Press. p. 483. ISBN 0312341830 9780312341831.  The world's second-largest francophone city is not Montreal Dakar or Algiers as most people would assume but Kinshasa capital of the former Zaire. Trefon Theodore (2004). Reinventing Order in the Congo: How People Respond to State Failure in Kinshasa. London and New York: Zed Books. p. 7. ISBN 1842774913 9781842774915. http://books.google.com/booksid5VAAHi93y0sC&pgPA7&dqKinshasa+second+largest+French+city&eiPeQiSt-yAojCyQSWqfijDw. Retrieved 31 May 2009.  A third factor is simply a demographic one. At least one in ten Congolese live in Kinshasa. With its 67 million inhabitants it is the second largest city in sub-Saharan Africa (after Lagos). It is also the second largest French-speaking city in the world according to Paris (even though only a small percentage of Kinois speak French correctly). Manning Patrick (1998). Francophone sub-Saharan Africa: Democracy and Dependence 19851995. London and New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 189. ISBN 0521645190 9780521645195. http://books.google.com/booksidLwzFF2FnbzMC&pgPA189&dqKinshasa+second+largest+francophone+city&lr&eiT-0iSpzsEYOIzQTSlXRBw. Retrieved 31 May 2009.  The apostles of francophonie in the 1980s labelled Zaire as the second-largest francophone country and Kinshasa as the second-largest francophone city. Yet Zaire seemed unlikely to escape a complex multilingualism. Lingala was the language of music of presidential addresses of daily life in government and in Kinshasa. But if Lingala was the spoken language of Kinshasa it made little progress as a written language. French was the written language of the city as seen in street signs posters newspapers and in government documents. French dominated plays and television as well as the press; French was the language of the national anthem and even for the doctrine of authenticity. Zairian researchers found French to be used in vertical relationsihps among people of uneven rank; people of equal rank no matter how high tended to speak Zairian languages among themselves. Given these limits French might have lost its place to another of the leading languages of Zaire Lingala Tshiluba or Swahili except that teach of these languages also suffered from limitations on its growth. (French) La Stib Kinshasa  La Dernire Heure 24 May 2007. (Dutch) Werkt MIVB mee aan uitbouw tramnetwerk Kinshasadead link (French) Lenfer des chemins de fer urbains kinois Le Potentiel 25 juillet 2005. DRC CONGO: KINSHASHA Railways Africa "Sanctuary. A love story" (PDF). Educator. Environmental Education and Training Newsletter (United Nations Environment Programme) (2). 2007. http://www.unep.org/training/downloads/newsletter/eetnewslvol2.pdf. Retrieved 14 August 2008.  External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Kinshasa Official website of the city of Kinshasa BRAKIN the fusion city of Brazzaville and Kinshasa urban analysis seminar by TU Darmstadt 2009 Travel information and city guide for Kinshasa Solo Kinshasa a blog about Kinshasa Kim Gjerstad a blog and photos from Kinshasa (no longer updated) University of Kinshasa SDAROVIA Hospital in Kinshasa DR Congo "Villes de RD Congo Kinshasa" (in French). MONUC. 29 May 2006. http://www.monuc.org/news.aspxnewsID11220. 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