Kinshasa in Congo

3 February 2023 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

© flickr.com - Antoine Moens de Hase/cc-by-2.0

© flickr.com – Antoine Moens de Hase/cc-by-2.0

Kinshasa (Lingala: Kinsásá), formerly Léopoldville (Dutch: Leopoldstad), is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages situated along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one of the world’s fastest growing megacities.   read more…

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