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Africa's fastest growing cities: Kinshasa

Published: Sept. 26, 2019, 1:40 a.m.

3. Kinshasa

The third largest city in Africa is in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and it’s Kinshasa which has more than 13,3 million people. Kinshasa, once known as Léopoldville, is located right across the river from another capital city: Brazzaville, which is the capital of the Republic of the Congo.

This makes Kinshasa and Brazzaville the second-closest couple of capital cities in the world. Kinshasa is the world's biggest French-speaking urban area, larger than Paris, and is a key educational, political, cultural, and industrial center for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This city was founded back in 1881.

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