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,
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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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 ...
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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 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 ...
, 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 ...
References
Districts of Kinshasa
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