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Kinshasa
Kinshasa is the one mega-city of Democratic Republic of the Congo — the only urban area in the country to pass five million people. The largest, Kinshasa, holds an estimated 7,843,000people across its urban agglomeration — a large mega-city. From Natural Earth, snapshot 2026-06-24.
MEGA-CITYKinshasa
POPULATION~7,843,000
NUMBER OF MEGA-CITIES1
The mega-city
Kinshasa~7,843,000 people
In context
Where Kinshasasits on the world’s scale of mega-cities — from the cities just over five million to the singular supergiant above twenty.
20M+
15–20M
10–15M
7–10MKinshasa is here
5–7M
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