Kinshasa
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- proper noun
- When I visited the Democratic Republic of the Congo, I spent three unforgettable days in Kinshasa.
- Kinshasa government
- city of Kinshasa
- Kinshasa authorities
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Examples
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Instead of large museums, historical monuments, or botanical gardens, Kinshasa offers urban landscapes that reflect its own particular culture.
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We don't live in Kinshasa.
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- I will take you to Kinshasa, Mr. Jim.
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Nice night in Kinshasa, huh?
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Worked with a white man to build a road into Kinshasa.
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More than a hundred sign painters work in the various neighborhoods of Kinshasa, each hoping for recognition.
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Back he went to Kinshasa to spend a year before applying for entry as a new immigrant.
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Big international sports events are the rage in Kinshasa, and people rapidly become hot-headed team supporters.
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Kinshasa is ground zero for Malin's smuggling pipeline.
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Thus, in our survey, 70 percent of respondents in Kinshasa favored some form of unitary state system.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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Former name of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Surface Forms
Etymology
Kinshasa comes from a small riverside village called Nshasa (also heard as Kinsasa) in a local Bantu language, and that village's name was used for the growing town. So Kinshasa is the capital city that began as a village on the Congo River.