1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Congo - Kinshasa
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Kikwit—509,367, Africa/Kinshasa, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: city in Congo-Kinshasa.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kikwit is GeoNames ID 2314705. Its recorded administrative path is Kikwit → Kwilu → Congo - Kinshasa, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Kikwit occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2023-11-29; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Kikwit ranks 1,123 by recorded population. Inside the 11 selected Congo - Kinshasa entries it ranks 10; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 230. Its 509,367 population value is 0.62 times the 816,811 median for the country cohort and 0.56 times the 902,588 regional median. Kikwit sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Congo - Kinshasa entries. Kikwit's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Kikwit's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Tshikapa at 267.496 km with 634,529 recorded people; Masina at 386.506 km with 485,167 recorded people; Kinshasa at 396.192 km with 16,000,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 128.696 km. Compared with Tshikapa, Kikwit's recorded population is 0.80 times as large. Against Kikwit, Tshikapa follows Tshikapa City → Kasai → Congo - Kinshasa in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Congo - Kinshasa cohort, uses Africa/Lubumbashi instead of Africa/Kinshasa, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Kikwit's. Against Kikwit, Masina follows Kinshasa → Congo - Kinshasa in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Congo - Kinshasa cohort, uses the shared Africa/Kinshasa identifier, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Kikwit's. Against Kikwit, Kinshasa follows Kinshasa → Congo - Kinshasa in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Congo - Kinshasa cohort, uses the shared Africa/Kinshasa identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Kikwit's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,088 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kikwit's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 2314705, the coordinate pair 5.0410 / 18.8162, country rank 10 of 11, and neighbor GeoNames 204953 at 267.496 km bind Kikwit to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kikwit's reference point is 5.0410° south and 18.8162° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Kinshasa is shared by 3 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Kikwit's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kikwit's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kikwit's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kikwit, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Kikwit's closest other entries in this atlas are Tshikapa (267.496 km), Masina (386.506 km), Kinshasa (396.192 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2023-11-29; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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