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# Kinshasa

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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). Seven and a half million people live there.

Henry Morton Stanley started the town in 1881, when it was called Léopoldville (after King Léopold II of Belgium), next to a village called Nshasa or Kinshasa. The city of Léopoldville change its name to Kinshasa in 1966.

Kinshasa is on one side of the Congo river, with Brazzaville on hte other side. Kinshasa and Brazzaville are the nearest country capitals in the World.

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Category: Capital cities in Africa

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