Capital City | Kinshasa |
Capital location | 4 19 S, 15 18 E |
Capital - history | Founded as a trading post in 1881 and named Leopoldville in honor of King LEOPOLD II of the Belgians, who controlled the Congo Free State, the vast central African territory that became the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960; in 1966, Leopoldville was renamed Kinshasa, after a village of that name that once stood near the site |
Capital - time difference |
UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time) Time zone note: the DRC has two time zones |
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