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 Kinshasa—16,000,000, 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: capital and the largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo having the status of a province.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kinshasa is GeoNames ID 2314302. Its recorded administrative path is Kinshasa → Congo - Kinshasa, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Kinshasa 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, Kinshasa ranks 5 by recorded population. Inside the 11 selected Congo - Kinshasa entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 1. Its 16,000,000 population value is 19.59 times the 816,811 median for the country cohort and 17.73 times the 902,588 regional median. Kinshasa falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Congo - Kinshasa population cohort. Kinshasa's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Kinshasa's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Brazzaville at 7.619 km with 1,982,000 recorded people; Masina at 10.642 km with 485,167 recorded people; Cabinda at 371.765 km with 550,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 364.146 km. Compared with Brazzaville, Kinshasa's recorded population is 8.07 times as large. Against Kinshasa, Brazzaville follows Brazzaville → Congo - Brazzaville in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Congo - Brazzaville cohort rather than Congo - Kinshasa, uses Africa/Brazzaville instead of Africa/Kinshasa, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is below Kinshasa's. Against Kinshasa, Masina follows Kinshasa → Congo - Kinshasa in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Congo - Kinshasa cohort, uses the shared Africa/Kinshasa identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Kinshasa's. Against Kinshasa, Cabinda follows Cabinda → Angola in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Angola cohort rather than Congo - Kinshasa, uses Africa/Luanda instead of Africa/Kinshasa, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Kinshasa's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 117 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kinshasa's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth of the atlas. 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 2314302, the coordinate pair 4.3276 / 15.3136, country rank 1 of 11, and neighbor GeoNames 2260535 at 7.619 km bind Kinshasa to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kinshasa's reference point is 4.3276° south and 15.3136° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Kinshasa is shared by 3 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Kinshasa's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kinshasa's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kinshasa's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kinshasa, 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
Kinshasa's closest other entries in this atlas are Brazzaville (7.619 km), Masina (10.642 km), Cabinda (371.765 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.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.