Lukunga 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 ...

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

Barumbu Barumbu is a municipality (''commune'') in the Lukunga district of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is situated in the north of Kinshasa, south of Gombe and the Boulevard du 30 Juin. Barumbu is historically ...

, Gombe,

Kintambo Kintambo is a municipality (''Communes of Kinshasa, commune'') in the Lukunga district of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is situated in the northwest of the city of Kinshasa, at the junction of ''Boulevard ...

Lingwala Lingwala is a municipality ('' commune'') in the Lukunga district of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "L ...

, Mont Ngafula and

Ngaliema Ngaliema is a municipality (''commune'') in the Lukunga District of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Location Ngaliema is situated in the west of Kinshasa. It stretches south towards Mont Ngaliema and along th ...

. 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, Lukunga makes up a fourteen-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 I. However, these districts are not part of Congo's territorial organization. The district takes its name from the

Lukunga River The Lukunga River is a river that flows through the capital city of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a tributary of the Congo River. Kinshasa lies on a plain that is surrounded by hills, drained by many rivers. Of these, the Lukun ...

. This is a critical source of water for the district, compromised by silting. File:F Theatre de verdure Ngaliema.jpg, Open-air theater in

, 1974 File:Kinshasa 2003.jpg, The boulevard of 30 June in

Gombe, Kinshasa Gombe or La Gombe is a municipality (''commune'') in the Lukunga district of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was formerly known as Kalina, after Lieutenant E. Kallina - an Austro-Hungarian soldier who volun ...

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Districts of Kinshasa {{DRCongo-geo-stub