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ID: 7000628
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000628
Record Type:
administrative
Kinshasa (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 04 18 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -4.3000
decimal degrees
Long: 015 18 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 15.3000
decimal degrees
Note:
Established as a depot by Sir Henry Morton Stanley who gave it the name of his sponsor, the Belgian king; quickly grew after the completion of the railroad from Matadi in 1898; center of the 1959 revolt that led to independence from Belgium.
Names:
Kinshasa
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
since 1966
Kinschasa
(
C
,
V
)
Léopoldville
(
H
,
O
)
............
until 1966
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Congo, République Démocratique du
(nation) (
P
)
............
Kinshasa
(special city) (
P
)
................
Kinshasa
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
developed in 1881, but was settled earlier
city (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
............
of Belgian Congo, 1926; of independent republic, 1960
port (
C
)
financial center (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Congo, République Démocratique du
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Africa) [1000159]
Sources and Contributors:
Kinschasa..........
[
VP
]
....................
Rand McNally Atlas (1991)
I-87
Kinshasa..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 481
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 881
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
101
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
613
Léopoldville..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 481
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 881
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
613
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 481
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 881
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1991)
I-87
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
101
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
613
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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