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 Tshikapa—634,529, 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: capital city of Kasaï province.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Tshikapa is GeoNames ID 204953. Its recorded administrative path is Tshikapa City → Kasai → Congo - Kinshasa, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Tshikapa 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, Tshikapa ranks 879 by recorded population. Inside the 11 selected Congo - Kinshasa entries it ranks 9; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 181. Its 634,529 population value is 0.78 times the 816,811 median for the country cohort and 0.70 times the 902,588 regional median. Tshikapa sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Congo - Kinshasa entries. Tshikapa'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.
Tshikapa's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kananga at 187.844 km with 1,247,168 recorded people; Kikwit at 267.496 km with 509,367 recorded people; Mbuji-Mayi at 309.926 km with 2,101,332 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 122.082 km. Compared with Kananga, Tshikapa's recorded population is 0.51 times as large. Against Tshikapa, Kananga follows Kananga City → Kasai-Central → Congo - Kinshasa in the source. Its point has higher 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 Tshikapa's. Against Tshikapa, Kikwit follows Kikwit → Kwilu → Congo - Kinshasa in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Congo - Kinshasa cohort, uses Africa/Kinshasa instead of Africa/Lubumbashi, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Tshikapa's. Against Tshikapa, Mbuji-Mayi follows Mbuji-Mayi City → East Kasai → Congo - Kinshasa in the source. Its point has higher 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 Tshikapa's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 963 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Tshikapa'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 204953, the coordinate pair 6.4162 / 20.8000, country rank 9 of 11, and neighbor GeoNames 214481 at 187.844 km bind Tshikapa to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Tshikapa's reference point is 6.4162° south and 20.8000° 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. Tshikapa's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Tshikapa's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Tshikapa's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Tshikapa, 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
Tshikapa's closest other entries in this atlas are Kananga (187.844 km), Kikwit (267.496 km), Mbuji-Mayi (309.926 km).
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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.