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Kinshasa.

The capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), in the western part of the country on the Congo River.

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name/kɪnˈʃɑːsə/
  1. The capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), in the western part of the country on the Congo River.

  2. The capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), in the western part of the country on the Congo River. The Democratic Republic of the Congo government.

    metonymically
Where this word comes from

From Kongo [Term?] (“the salt market”).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.