Kinshasa

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Kinshasa

  • /kɪnˈʃɑːsə/

Rhymes with -ɑːsə

Where it comes from

From Kongo [Term?] (“the salt market”).

proper noun Kin

  1. The capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), in the western part of the country on the Congo River.
  2. metonymically The Democratic Republic of the Congo government.

Similar: Leopoldville

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