[12][13], Kinshasa is a city of sharp contrasts, with affluent residential and commercial areas and three universities alongside sprawling slums. Similar elections for local councils have yet to occur. This of course also effects the counts of city subdivisions such as communes and quarters. Congo) entre 1995 et 2005 par télédétection satellitaire à haute résolution, "DemographiaWorld Urban Areas – 13th Annual Edition", "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab", "Kinshasa – national capital, Democratic Republic of the Congo", "Patrice Lumumba: the most important assassination of the 20th century", DR Congo election: 17 dead in anti-Kabila protests, Congo A 'Powder Keg' As Security Forces Crack Down On Whistling Demonstrators, Kinshasa 2005.

Street children are mainly boys,[67] but the percentage of girls is increasing according to UNICEF. [32] Critics, including recently[when?] The Mission Française d'Urbanisme drew up some plans in the 1960s which envisioned a greater role for automobile transportation but did not predict the city's significant population growth. (Kalamu), Kin. It was formerly known as Kalina, after Lieutenant E. Kallina - an Austro-Hungarian soldier who volunteered in the Congo Free State. Attention : l’imagerie haute définition Bing est décalée, utilisez la correction 24.80; 3.30.. Kinshasa is the capital of the Congo (DRC) which has French as its official language. According to the Commercial Corporation of Transport and Ports (SCTP), the Matadi-Kinshasa Railway (CFMK) has the highest transport of goods in import, 8 746 tonnes in January, 11,318 tonnes in February 10,032 tonnes in March, 7,244 tonnes in April, 5,024 tonnes in March and 7,745 tonnes in June. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the. It describes many of the new neighborhoods as slums, built in unsafe conditions with inadequate infrastructure. In the 1940s it was linked to the historic heart of Léopoldville, now located at Kintambo, by the boulevard du 30‑Juin. Lukunga is one of the four districts that make up the capital city of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). An official census conducted in 1984 counted 2.6 million residents. Modified version of File:Kinshasa-communes.svg by Denis Moyogo Jacquerye. The city's infrastructure for running water and electricity is generally in bad shape. Since the Second Congo War, the city has been striving to recover from disorder, with many youth gangs hailing from Kinshasa's slums. Under the old organization the six provinces were divided into districts and cities. 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.

The city has two airports: N'djili Airport (FIH) is the main airport with connections to other African countries as well as to Istanbul, Brussels, Paris and some other destinations. Dojos are popular and their owners influential.[11]. This page was last edited on 3 January 2019, at 23:12. It includes the communes (municipalities) of Kisenso, Lemba, Limete, Matete and Ngaba. Thus much of the urban structure has developed without guidance from a master plan. The hierarchy of types of administrative division in the Congo, as set down in organic law, is as follows:[1](French names in italics.). The east-west road network linking the more distant neighborhoods is weak and thus transit through much of the city is difficult. [56] Another source cites a homicide rate of 12.3 per 100,000. In January some 284 tonnes of goods were exported from the ports of Boma and Matadi, via the railway, and 711 tonnes in February, then 1,058 tonnes in March, 684 tonnes in April, 818 tonnes in May and 853 tonnes in June. Thus, for example, the new city of Uvira is not counted as a city but as a commune in the table. 11% had refrigerators and 5% had cars.

Kinshasa is home to several media outlets, including radio and television stations, including state-run Radio-Télévision nationale congolaise (RTNC) and privately run Digital Congo and Raga TV. The SCTP did indeed transport part of this production to Kinshasa but the exact quantity was not communicated by the railway department of the company, the former DG Kimbembe Mazunga had communicated an agreed protocol of agreements with the cement manufacturers of Kongo-Central for the transport of their productions. Kinshasa city-province on map of DR Congo, "Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kinshasa_(commune)&oldid=978074757, Democratic Republic of the Congo geography stubs, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 12 September 2020, at 19:06. [17] A 2004 investigation found 70% of inhabitants employed informally, 17% in the public sector, 9% in the formal private sector, and 3% other, of a total 976,000 workers. 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. [49] The electrical network is in disrepair to the extent that prolonged and periodic blackouts are normal, and exposed lines sometimes electrify pools of rainwater.

In April of that year the League of Women Voters for the Elections met with the electoral commission and condemned the delay in starting candidate registration for the local elections. If the voter lived in a provincial city they were also to have a more indirect say, again through the local council, in the composition of the city government. Kinshasa, formerly (until 1966) Léopoldville, 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.