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 Lubumbashi—2,221,925, 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: second largest city in Democratic Republic of the Congo.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Lubumbashi is GeoNames ID 922704. Its recorded administrative path is Lubumbashi (city) → Haut-Katanga → Congo - Kinshasa, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Lubumbashi 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 2026-04-13; 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, Lubumbashi ranks 177 by recorded population. Inside the 11 selected Congo - Kinshasa entries it ranks 2; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 35. Its 2,221,925 population value is 2.72 times the 816,811 median for the country cohort and 2.46 times the 902,588 regional median. Lubumbashi falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Congo - Kinshasa population cohort. Lubumbashi'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.
Lubumbashi's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Likasi at 110.491 km with 635,768 recorded people; Kitwe at 149.905 km with 665,961 recorded people; Ndola at 191.386 km with 627,503 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 80.895 km. Compared with Likasi, Lubumbashi's recorded population is 3.49 times as large. Against Lubumbashi, Likasi follows Likasi → Haut-Katanga → 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/Lubumbashi identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Lubumbashi's. Against Lubumbashi, 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 first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Lubumbashi's. Against Lubumbashi, Ndola 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 the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Lubumbashi's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 739 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Lubumbashi'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 922704, the coordinate pair 11.6609 / 27.4794, country rank 2 of 11, and neighbor GeoNames 922741 at 110.491 km bind Lubumbashi to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Lubumbashi's reference point is 11.6609° south and 27.4794° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Lubumbashi is shared by 8 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Lubumbashi's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Lubumbashi's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Lubumbashi's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Lubumbashi, 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
Lubumbashi's closest other entries in this atlas are Likasi (110.491 km), Kitwe (149.905 km), Ndola (191.386 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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