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Multiple Choice City Quiz – Kinshasa

Can you answer these multiple choice questions about the city of Kinshasa?
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1. On what river is Kinshasa located?
Congo
Niger
Nile
Zambezi
2. What other capital lies just across the river from Kinshasa?
Brazzaville
Libreville
Luanda
Yaoundé
3. Who founded Kinshasa as a trading post in 1881?
Jacques Marquette
Stamford Raffles
Cecil Rhodes
Henry Morton Stanley
4. Originally, Kinshasa was named for a Belgian king. What was its name at the time?
Albertville
Léopoldville
Philipstadt
Willemstadt
5. Who gave the city its current name in 1966?
Charles de Gaulle
Laurent-Désiré Kabila
Patrice Lumumba
Mobutu Sese Seko
6. While French is the national language, what is the most widely used lingua franca in Kinshasa?
Chewa
Lingala
Swahili
Xhosa
7. Who famously visited the city in 1974?
Leonid Brezhnev
Elvis Presley
Muhammad Ali and George Foreman
John Lennon and Yoko Ono
8. What disease is thought by some scientists to have originated in Kinshasa between 1909–1930?
HIV/AIDS
Malaria
Spanish Flu
Yellow Fever
9. According to UN estimates from 2016, what will the population of the Kinshasa urban area be in 2100?
17 million
27 million
37 million
83 million
10. What district is home to Kinshasa's central business district and the presidential palace?
Leblon
Gombe
Malabar
Zone 10
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13 Comments
Neodymium
+1
Level 63
Mar 21, 2025
7/10, nwas
Fianchetto
+1
Level 78
Mar 21, 2025
Thanks, this one was a little bit harder to find questions for.
baptistegorce
+1
Level 57
Mar 23, 2025
Just to let you know, I didn't add the quiz to the world map since there is one published the day before about that same city.
Alexquiz17
+2
Level 94
May 5, 2025
This one is better
Quizmaster
+9
Level ∞
May 4, 2025
Regarding the 2100 population estimate, no doubt many people will say it's unrealistic.

I think it's possible.

Consider that the population of Kinshasa has increased by 100x in the last 70 years!

Would it be that surprising if it increases by another 5x in the next 70 years?

Of course making predictions about the far future is difficult. Fertility in most places outside of sub-Saharan African has collapsed. Perhaps this trend will reach Congo as well.

There's also a pretty high chance that AI kills us all in the next couple decades, or things get so weird that the entire concept of humanity is altered.

But the normie take is that Kinshasa won't be able to sustain its population because they are too poor. You could have said the same thing any time in the last 50 years and you'd have been wrong every time. The amount of calories available per person in Africa has increased by massive amounts.

In conclusion, 83 million is totally possible.

Scottie777
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Level 99
May 5, 2025
This is mindblowing
stylus
+3
Level 79
Aug 30, 2025
can you expand on the "pretty high chance that AI kills us all in the next couple decades"? i'm curious how you go about estimating a likelihood for something like that
GoblinOfCooz
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Level 79
Aug 30, 2025
My take is that these projections are overshoots for a few reasons. First, the relatively extreme growth of these african metropolises compared to the growth of their countries as a whole is due to internal migration (because fertility is always higher in the countryside). The marginal value of moving to the capital will decrease as urban populations increase, which means the value proposition of migrating somewhere else instead becomes more reasonable. Ecological and infrastructural precarity also matter as these extremely underdeveloped megacities continue to grow. Finally, the most motivated and capable migrants move first; the first waves of internal migration cannot be extrapolated indefinitely for that reason.
Thomas1VL
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Level 67
Nov 14, 2025
These projections always assume little to no change in terms of birth rate. Realistically, the more Kinshasa develops, the lower the birth rate gets. That's how it goes anywhere in the world.
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Nov 14, 2025
The projections don't actually assume that @Thomas1VL. They assume a declining birth rate for Congo.
Time123
+3
Level 58
Sep 1, 2025
Considering that Tokyo has 40 million, a city with 80 seems kind of crazy - even assuming the UN growth estimate is accurate, I think a space problem would hinder development more than anything else (maybe it will be divided into two?)
idontkn1
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Level 94
Sep 2, 2025
Does anyone know if that figure is just for Kinshasa or if it includes the Brazzaville piece as well? If it's just the DRC piece I have questions based on geography and it only being able to grow out in 360 degrees.
idontkn1
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Level 94
Sep 2, 2025
Looking at the source, that is just Kinshasa. Brazzaville is it's own entry. According to the source there will be 2 Malawian cities with 40 million people. The entire country population is 21 million in it right now and Blantyre one of the cities that is predicted to get there has 800k according to a 2018 census. Now that seems ludicrous.
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