1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Congo - Kinshasa
Compare this sourced profile of Kolwezi, Congo - Kinshasa before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Kolwezi—790,248, Africa/Lubumbashi, 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 of Democratic Republic of the Congo.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kolwezi is GeoNames ID 922773. Its recorded administrative path is Kolwezi → Lualaba → Congo - Kinshasa, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Kolwezi 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 2025-05-08; 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, Kolwezi ranks 702 by recorded population. Inside the 11 selected Congo - Kinshasa entries it ranks 7; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 142. Its 790,248 population value is 0.97 times the 816,811 median for the country cohort and 0.88 times the 902,588 regional median. Kolwezi sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Congo - Kinshasa entries. Kolwezi's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Kolwezi's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Likasi at 142.04 km with 635,768 recorded people; Lubumbashi at 243.441 km with 2,221,925 recorded people; Kitwe at 378.504 km with 665,961 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 236.464 km. Compared with Likasi, Kolwezi's recorded population is 1.24 times as large. Against Kolwezi, Likasi follows Likasi → Haut-Katanga → 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/Lubumbashi identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Kolwezi's. Against Kolwezi, Lubumbashi follows Lubumbashi (city) → Haut-Katanga → 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/Lubumbashi identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Kolwezi's. Against Kolwezi, Kitwe follows Copperbelt → Zambia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Zambia cohort rather than Congo - Kinshasa, uses Africa/Lusaka instead of Africa/Lubumbashi, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Kolwezi's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 853 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kolwezi'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 922773, the coordinate pair 10.7148 / 25.4667, country rank 7 of 11, and neighbor GeoNames 922741 at 142.04 km bind Kolwezi to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kolwezi's reference point is 10.7148° south and 25.4667° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Lubumbashi is shared by 8 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Kolwezi's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kolwezi's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kolwezi's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kolwezi, 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
Kolwezi's closest other entries in this atlas are Likasi (142.04 km), Lubumbashi (243.441 km), Kitwe (378.504 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-05-08; 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.