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Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo)
(Capital city)
Last modified: 2017-11-13 by bruce berry
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image by Tomislav Šipek, 14 Apr 2017
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Background
Kinshasa is the capital and
largest city of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) located on the Congo
River. It is the third largest
urban area in Africa (after Cairo and Lagos) with a
population exceeding 11 million. It
faces Brazzaville, the capital of the neighbouring Republic of the Congo, which can be seen in the distance across the Congo River,
making them the two closest capital cities in the world after Rome and the Vatican City.
The city was founded as a trading post by
Henry Morton Stanley in 1881 and was named Léopoldville in honour of King
Leopold II of Belgium who owned what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The city was reamed Kinshasa in 1966.
Zeljko Heimer, 22 Jul 1997
Flag of Kinshasa (2011- )
The current municipal flag of Kinshasa is white with the city emblem in the
centre.
Tomislav Šipek, 14 Apr 2017
Flag of Kinshasa (1967-2011)
image
by Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 18 Feb 2001
This is a “reconstructed” image based on description in The Complete Guide
William Cramption (1990) [cra90b] which
describes the flag of Kinshasa as being "Blue with a white wavy stripe surmounted by the letter K and two stars,
all yellow".
Zeljko Heimer, 22 Jul 1997
Variant flag
image
by Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 18 Feb 2001
I've seen the flag for Kinshasa in two variants:
(1) with the stars on sides of an initial K, and
(2) with the initial K positioned near hoist, with the stars arranged
vertically to its right [which was the way I saw it years ago in a late
1960s flag book at a library in Wiscasset, ME USA].
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 18 Feb 2001
Flag of Léopoldville (1960-1967)
image
by Zeljko Heimer, 01 Jun 1999
The flag Léopoldville was the same as the
initial version of the flag of Kinshasa, but with an "L" instead of a "K".
Jaume Ollé, 27 Jul 1997
Flag of Léopoldville (1925-1960)
An earlier version of the municipal flag but with a royal crown above the "L".
Jaume Ollé, 27 Jul 1997
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