Funa is an area of the capital city of
Kinshasa
Kinshasa (; ; ln, Kinsásá), formerly Léopoldville ( nl, Leopoldstad), is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages situated along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one o ...
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...
, comprising seven of the city-province's twenty-four
administrative division
Administrative division, administrative unit,Article 3(1). country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, constituent state, as well as many similar terms, are generic names for geographical areas into which a particular, ind ...
s—the communes of
Bandalungwa
Bandalungwa is a municipality (''commune'') in the Funa district of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Its northern portion is occupied by the military barracks of Kokolo, whose buildings prominently display tr ...
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Bumbu
Bumbu is a municipality (''Communes of Kinshasa, commune'') in the Funa (district), Funa district of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The town is in the hilled southern portion of Kinshasa and settlement there ...
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Kalamu
Kalamu is a municipality (''commune'') in the Funa district of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
It forms the part of the city to the south of major buildings such as the Palais du Peuple ("Palace of the People" ...
,
Kasa-Vubu,
Makala,
Ngiri-Ngiri and
Selembao
Selembao is a municipality (''commune'') in the Funa district of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
It is situated in the south of Kinshasa. Selembao is one of the new settlements, located near the Kalamu
Kala ...
. It is one of the four so-called districts of Kinshasa. These were the administrative divisions of Kinshasa during much of the
Mobutu
Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga (; born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu; 14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997) was a Congolese politician and military officer who was the president of Zaire from 1965 to 1997 (known as the Democratic Republic o ...
years (1965-1997) and around which a number of government systems and services are still organized. For instance, Funa makes up a twelve-member
National Assembly
In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...
constituency designated as Kinshasa II. However, these districts are not part of Congo's
territorial organization.
References
Districts of Kinshasa
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