Definitions for "Kinshasa"
the capital city of Zaire, formerly named Leopoldville.
the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville
Kinshasa (formerly Léopoldville or, before 1960, also Leopoldstad) is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With a population of about 7.5 million (2005 census), it ties with Johannesburg for the status of the second largest city in sub-Saharan Africa, behind Lagos, and third largest in the whole continent, after Lagos and Cairo.