Kinshasa
Kinshasa (umwhile French: Léopoldville, an Dutch: 
Leopoldstad?) is the caipital an lairgest ceety o the Democratic Republic o the Congo. The ceety is locatit on the Congo River.
Ance a site o fishin veelages, Kinshasa is nou an urban aurie wi a population of 10,076,099 inhabitants in 2009. The ceety o Brazzaville (aboot 1.2 million inhabitants in 2007 wi its suburbs), caipital o the Republic o the Congo, lies just across the Congo River from Kinshasa. Thegither wi Brazzaville, the combined conurbation o Kinshasa-Brazzaville haes thus nearly 12 million inhabitants—makin it the maist populous transborder metropolitan aurie in the warld. Acause the admeenistrative bundaries cover such a vast aurie, ower 60% o the ceety's land is rural in nature, an the urban aurie anerlie occupies a sma section in the far wastren end o the province.
[edit] Sister ceeties
Bologna (Italy)
Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo)
Brussels (Belgium) since 2002
Dakar (Senegal)
Ankara (Turkey)
